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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68D0325

1967-10-22 AUGUSTA, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8347W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32R-301

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810227

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB6A98

Registrant of record

KIRK KEVIN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8347W Piper PA-28 Minor

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 · N8347W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BUSH FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

771 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

575

Age

62

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
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 4019. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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