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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0096

1967-07-30 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5427P 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 · N5427P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

LOVELL FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

865 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

240

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E PN2170400 SEPARATED.LUG FOUND ON FUSELAGE FLOOR.

Investigator remarks

PX INCL 3 CHILDREN.GR TRANSMISSION SCREW NUT TUB

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 2788. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2788.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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