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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68F0027

1967-04-05 PORT ORCHARD, Washington, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4392J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1967 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670227

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54734

Registrant of record

ORTEGA RENE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4392J Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N4392J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PORT ORCHARD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Total time

101 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,009

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

POWER WAS APPLIED FOR GO-AROUND.

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED FORCE LDG FROM 3000 FT. ENG QUIT WHEN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/J/G J
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING Joint cause
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS

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 2 0681. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0681.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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