Event FTW67D0354

1966-11-30 PECOS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N87082 Ercoupe 415-C Minor

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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N87082

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,942 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

256

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR PLT-OIL FILLER CAP MISSING.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 3939. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3939.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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