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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72DQG26

1972-01-30 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2568R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1969 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691001

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A27148

Registrant of record

CRAVEN JAMES J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2568R 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 · N2568R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 15 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-5649

Total time

460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

94

Age

22

Investigator remarks

NO FLAP LDG.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0496. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0496.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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