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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0431

1968-02-17 CASTROVILLE, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N221A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172

Year of manufacture

1956 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560220

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1E4B8

Registrant of record

GRYCZEWSKI JOHN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N221A Piaggio P136L1 Minor

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

PIAGGIO P136L1 · N221A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

285° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,071 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

12,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STRANGE TO PLT,STRUCK SANDBAR ON GO AROUND ATTEMPT

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN WATER DUE GEAR MALFUNCTION. ACFT FELT

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
70/C/CB C
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause
64/B/81 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF
88/L/07 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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 0563. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0563.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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