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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0026

1965-06-04 JACKSONVILLE, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8068P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHAFFER JERRY A COYOTE S-4

Year of manufacture

1985

Engine

ROTAX 447 (40 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20071210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAFBA5

Registrant of record

WATSON ROBERT S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8068P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8068P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

JACKSONVILLE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,016 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,078

Age

38

Cause factors

66/A/13 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1392. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1392.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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