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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69D0191

1968-10-09 PARIS, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5737D Piper PA-22 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-22 · N5737D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

HENRY COUNTY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,792 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,250

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SING.

Investigator remarks

SEPARATION OF ENG MIXTURE CONTROL SHAFT FROM HOU

Cause factors

74/C/I1 C
POWERPLANT MIXTURE CONTROL ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3695. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3695.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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