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MIA69F0066

1968-07-12 · PLANT CITY, Florida, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STITS SA-3A · N4665S
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
PLANT CITY
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
158 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
165
Age
23

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/87 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2282. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2282.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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