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FTW66F0265

1965-08-07 · COVINGTON, Louisiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N50084 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER L-21B, built 1953), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
TAYLORCRAFT L-2M · N50084
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
190° / 7 kt
Temp
82° F

Aircraft history

Total time
2,810 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
3,750
Age
35

Cause factors

  • 88/A/63 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2390. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2390.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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