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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67F0054

1966-07-05 SAN BENITO, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7013Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLEASON WILLIAM D KOLB TWINSTAR MK II

Year of manufacture

1990

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19900524

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95B1E

Registrant of record

GLEASON WILLIAM D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7013Z Piper PA-25 Serious

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-25 · N7013Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

SAN BENITO MUNICI

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

140° / 14 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,250

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 0270. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0270.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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