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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70F0367

1969-12-07 TYRONZA, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2420L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR 360

Year of manufacture

1994

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20031108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A239D0

Registrant of record

SASSCER MICHAEL SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2420L Cessna 172H 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

CESSNA 172H · N2420L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017255620

Total time

675 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

320

Age

34

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 4493. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4493.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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