Atlas / NTSB / FTW66F0256

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0256

1965-09-02 POST, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5479Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BANES JOHN E STITS-SAGB

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970918

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6F597

Registrant of record

BANES JON R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5479Y Piper PA-23 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 PA-23 · N5479Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MORROW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

250° / 17 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

399 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

900

Age

51

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 2382. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2382.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.