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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0010

1968-06-05 ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6033Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N6033Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

BUHLOW LAKE

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,730

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EAR LTS SHOWED SAFE.ANNUAL INSPECTION 10 HRS PRIOR

Investigator remarks

RT GEAR IMPROPERLY RIGGED,COULD NOT LOCK DOWN. G

Cause factors

70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/47 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1448. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1448.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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