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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69A0027

1968-09-04 MANAHAWKIN, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8000W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CONSOLIDATED AERONAUTICS INC. LAKE LA-4-200

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790921

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAE44A

Registrant of record

MOORE GEORGE D JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8000W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8000W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MANAHAWKIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,364 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

13,500

Age

46

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/C/C C
WEATHER FOG Cause

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 2466. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2466.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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