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MIA69F0252

1968-10-28 · KENNESAW, Georgia, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N17P has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (MAULE M-7-235B, built 2008), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY M-18L · N17P
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
MCCOLLUM
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
300° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Total time
885 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
161
Age
26

Investigator remarks

CRANKSHAFT SEIZED AT CENTER MAIN BEARING.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AB C
    POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
  • 88/C/CI C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3970. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3970.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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