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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65D0018

1965-01-30 YUMA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5874H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-16

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A792D5

Registrant of record

KING WILLIAM A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5874H Piper PA16 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 PA16 · N5874H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

YUMA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

560

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0268. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0268.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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