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NYC68F0124

1967-08-30 · BUCKSPORT, Maine, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA-20S · N1835A
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
1,623 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
830
Age
42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N CONSIDERABLE OIL AND GREASE.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. MAGNETO AND COIL FOUND TO CONTAI

Cause factors

  • 74/C/BA C
    POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
  • 74/C/BD C
    POWERPLANT COILS Cause
  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3157. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3157.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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