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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68D0117

1967-08-11 AUGUSTA, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5042Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-108

Year of manufacture

1961 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610614

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A64B82

Registrant of record

SMART ALAN G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5042Z 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 · N5042Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Business

Airport

AUGUSTA STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

372 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LY.NO EVIDENCE OF MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

PILOT STATED THAT ACFT DID NOT ACCELERATE PROPER

Cause factors

64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2742. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2742.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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