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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0522

1968-03-24 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7673Y Piper PA-30 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-30 · N7673Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SAN MARCOS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 14 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,101 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,374

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CK IN DOWN POSITION,UNDTRMND CAUSE.RT GR CAME OFF.

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED RT ENG FAILURE.LT FLAP MOMENTARILY STU

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
70/B/D5 B
AIRFRAME FLAP ASSEMBLIES
88/B/CS B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STUCK
88/B/53 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ASYMETRICAL FLAPS
88/K/05 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR 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 0839. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0839.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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