Event MKC69A0050

1969-02-16 OSWEGO, Kansas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1816P Piper PA-22 Fatal

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 · N1816P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,575 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G ON INSIDE LWR STRUT WALL.ANNUAL INSP APRIL 1968.

Investigator remarks

L FRONT LFT STRUT FAILED.DUE TO SVR CORROSION DM

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
70/C/AD C
AIRFRAME BRACING WIRES,STRUTS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/55 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 0520. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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