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FTW69F0184

1968-09-06 · FORT WORTH, Texas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERONCA 65-TAF · N36680
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
D
Airport
RUSSELL
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
3,421 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
205
Age
26

Investigator remarks

PLT DID NOT CLEAR ENG.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/34 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3060. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3060.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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