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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0390

1968-01-23 SARASOTA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7113P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24

Year of manufacture

1960 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98293

Registrant of record

WALLACE LONNIE ROY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7113P 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 · N7113P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SARASOTA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 10 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,584 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

318

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG.

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE WARNING HORN SWITCH NOT TIGHT TO MOUNTI

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS Joint cause
88/J/AV J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Joint 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 0153. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0153.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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