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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0448

1969-04-06 PEARLAND, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8761K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STINSON 108-1

Year of manufacture

1947 · 22 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4150 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550901

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC0F25

Registrant of record

RAMIN JEANETTE J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8761K Stinson 108-1 Minor

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

STINSON 108-1 · N8761K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

909 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

327

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ION RING NO 6 CYL.FIRE ORIGIN VICINITY OF L TANK.

Investigator remarks

INTAKE VALVE SEAT NO 5 CYL LOOSE,BROKEN COMPRESS

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 0629. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0629.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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