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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0036

1965-07-03 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6492Z Piper PA-25 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-25 · N6492Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

LITCHFIELD PARK

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,500

Age

25

Cause factors

84/A/1 A
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 2 0346. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0346.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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