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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70D0030

1969-05-30 KINGSLAND, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9352W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1968 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACFAEF

Registrant of record

NISTLER ANTHONY LAMAR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9352W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N9352W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

KINGSLAND ESTATES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

368 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

154

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 1651. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1651.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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