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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68D0610

1968-05-12 BOERNE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6388P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19811222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85EF2

Registrant of record

MURFIN DRILLING CO INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6388P Piper PA-24 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PIPER PA-24 · N6388P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

DOUBLE U

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,002 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

53

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/L/BI L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION
80/L/BK L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1373. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1373.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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