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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0398

1968-02-09 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6284P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1959 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A836E7

Registrant of record

THOMSON WILLIAM O

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6284P 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 · N6284P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SHELBY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,839 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

227

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E TO HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS.

Investigator remarks

INSUFFICIENT TIME FOR GEAR TO LOCK DOWN. HELD DU

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0222. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0222.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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