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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69D0128

1968-08-05 DUMAS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6275Z 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 · N6275Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DN

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

190° / 8 kt

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,190 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,200

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L SATURATED FLAGMAN.PLT HAD SPRAYED 10 HR,LAST 24.

Investigator remarks

PLT SIGNALLING TO FLAGMAN IN TRUCK.TOXIC CHEMICA

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/62 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE Joint cause

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 2604. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2604.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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