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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68D0375

1968-01-20 LEXINGTON, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N877MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1966 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC116B

Registrant of record

MASON RORY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N877MA 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 · N877MA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

377 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

222

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED IN LAKE AFTER STRIKING POWER LINES.

Investigator remarks

PLT DEMONSTRATING FORCED LNDG TO PAX. ACFT CRASH

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
88/K/79 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE 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 0079. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0079.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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