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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0477

1968-03-02 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4609R 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 · N4609R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 15 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,023 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,021

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG RESTARTED AFTER TREES STRUCK. LANDED SAFELY.

Investigator remarks

PROLONGED GLIDE WHILE DEMONSTRATING FORCED LNDG.

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS

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 0768. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0768.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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