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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0032

1968-06-07 MONTICELLO, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6008P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N6008P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

COUNTY SEAT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

897 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

137

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RODED.PLT LEFT RNWY TO AVOID DROP OFF AT END.

Investigator remarks

BOTH BRAKE DISCS WORN EXCESSIVELY,RUSTED AND COR

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/55 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION Cause
88/C/BL C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DETERIORATED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 2129. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2129.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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