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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0360

1968-04-27 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6315J 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 · N6315J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MONTEREY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

090° / 2 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Total time

63 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

106

Age

25

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/C/G C
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING 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 0929. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0929.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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