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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69F0109

1968-08-30 SILVERDALE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4296H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-14

Year of manufacture

1948 · 20 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19711020

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A52040

Registrant of record

BOGART SEAN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4296H Piper PA-14 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-14 · N4296H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

APEX AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 3 kt

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

40,000

Age

61

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK LOG.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 3810. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3810.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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