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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK68X0105

1967-10-16 AGRINION, Other Foreign, Greece Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N68684 Grumman TBM-3 Fatal

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

GRUMMAN TBM-3 · N68684

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,413 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,232

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SE OF FIRE UNDETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

INVESTIGATED AND REPORTED BY GOVT.OF GREECE. CAU

Cause factors

88/C/51 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 6 0088. Source file NTSB_1967_6_0088.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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