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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70D0170

1969-11-23 CHOWCHILLA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6387R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1966 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660321

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85ED1

Registrant of record

SANTANIELLO JOSEPH BENJAMIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6387R 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 · N6387R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CHOWCHILLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-21564

Total time

2,311 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

86

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AR INSTEAD OF BRAKE PEDALS.R FT SLIPPED ON BRAKE.

Investigator remarks

LND 2/3 DOWN RWY.PLTS FEET CONTACTED TOP PIVOT B

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 4460. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4460.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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