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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70D0253

1969-10-09 PECOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7266F Piper PA-28 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-28 · N7266F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PECOS

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25186

Total time

406 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

7

Age

40

Investigator remarks

THIRD SOLO FLT.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 4152. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4152.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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