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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0292

1968-02-10 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6873W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1965 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650813

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9200E

Registrant of record

UPTEGROVE JAMES L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6873W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N6873W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SANTA CRUZ

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,993 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

9

Age

35

Investigator remarks

STRUCK N6053M-SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 0391. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0391.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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