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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0686

1966-06-03 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8012K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STINSON 108-2

Year of manufacture

1947 · 19 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4165 SERIES (165 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570503

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAE83C

Registrant of record

ZIMMERMAN FREDERICK J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8012K Stinson 108-2 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

STINSON 108-2 · N8012K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SHREVEPORT DOWNTO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 8 kt

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,833 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,400

Age

59

Cause factors

66/C/22 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 1169. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1169.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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