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DEN66A0067

1966-03-19 · TUCSON, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PITTS SPECL · N5T
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB
Kind of flying
DF

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
310° / 7 kt
Temp
80° F

Aircraft history

Total time
66 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
24,690
Age
52

Cause factors

  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0169. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0169.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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