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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0767

1966-05-28 NAPOLEON, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2634P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER KA 6 E

Year of manufacture

1966 · 0 years old at event

TCDS

7G1 · ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO. SEGELFLUGZEUGBAU

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040916

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A28D14

Registrant of record

WAGENKNECHT HARALD H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2634P Piper PA-22 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-22 · N2634P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MAULE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

300° / 11 kt

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

100

Age

42

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 4396. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4396.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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