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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0327

1965-10-14 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4958Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-108

Year of manufacture

1961 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A62633

Registrant of record

DACY ROY WAYNE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4958Z Piper PA22 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 PA22 · N4958Z

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,159 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

280

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EMOVE CHOCK-HER ACTION WAS SPONTANEOUS NOT REQUEST

Investigator remarks

PILOTS MOTHER HIT BY PROPELLER AS SHE TRIED TO R

Cause factors

68/A/K2 A
PERSONNEL SPECTATOR 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 0609. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0609.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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