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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69A0032

1968-12-10 AVENAL, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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-32 · N3267W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,397 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN AND TURBC BETN 1600-2400 HRS.

Investigator remarks

PROPERTY OWNER AT ACCIDENT SITE REPORTED HARD RA

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4645. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4645.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.