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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0295

1967-10-13 DUMAS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6577Z Piper PA-25 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-25 · N6577Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DD

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 18 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,412 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OKEN SWITCH WIRE.

Investigator remarks

IGNITION HARNESS FAULTY. ONE MAGNETO INOP DUE BR

Cause factors

74/C/BG C
POWERPLANT IGNITION HARNESS,SHIELDING Cause
74/C/BH C
POWERPLANT SWITCHES Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3651. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3651.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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