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FTW66F0080

1965-05-23 · PEARSALL, Texas, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N7366D has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 172N, built 1979), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA18A · N7366D
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DH
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Airport
MC KINLEY FIELD
Kind of flying
CA

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
090° / 6 kt
Temp
70° F

Aircraft history

Total time
2,466 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
7,000
Age
43

Investigator remarks

PILOT FLEW TOO CLOSE BEHIND SECOND DUSTER ACFT

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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0376. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0376.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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