Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / DEN67D0160

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67D0160

1966-11-03 WHITE SANDS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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-19 · N10340

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

L

Airport

WHITE SANDS RANGE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 2 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,907 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

13

Age

24

Cause factors

  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 3 3605. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3605.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.