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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67D0310

1967-04-24 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5873Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N5873Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

695 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,371

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TN.SPIN STOPPED. WINGS BUCKLED.ACFT LND ON ARPT OK

Investigator remarks

R.ENG FAILED.PLT CHG VARIOUS CONTROLS,ENG PWR RE

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/08 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause
64/C/66 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause
64/C/09 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT 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 1329. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1329.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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