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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71AF030

1970-12-10 WINNSBORO, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2429R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T206H

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A23B10

Registrant of record

JONES ADAM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2429R Piper PA-28 Fatal

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 · N2429R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-5621

Total time

339 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

238

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H PAX UNDETERMINED. PLT CO CONTENT 8.7 PCT.

Investigator remarks

L OUTER WG PANEL FAILED. HI CO SATURATION OF BOT

Cause factors

64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/66 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause
64/C/09 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause
70/C/AA C
AIRFRAME SPARS Cause
88/L/94 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 1674. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1674.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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