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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0328

1965-09-23 WHITE CLOUD, Michigan, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5668H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HOPPE KARL A A/L-2 (TOAD) II

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A740AC

Registrant of record

HOPPE KARL A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5668H Piper PA-16 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-16 · N5668H

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

WHITE CLOUD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

660 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

45

Investigator remarks

FAILURE NO.1 CYLINDER EXHAUST VALVE P/N 66081.

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2 0602. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0602.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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