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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67F0396

1967-02-14 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8562P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-260

Year of manufacture

1965 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABC04E

Registrant of record

KESSER GILBERT M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8562P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8562P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOVELL FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

887 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,158

Age

38

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause

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 0499. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0499.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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