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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69D0078

1968-07-21 BUTTE MEADOWS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2914T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER 200D

Year of manufacture

1966 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-F (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230315

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2FC27

Registrant of record

TP AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2914T AERO COMDR 200D 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

AERO COMDR 200D · N2914T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

37

Investigator remarks

NUMBER 5 PISTON BROKEN.

Cause factors

74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2564. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2564.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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