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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76FQG59

1976-04-27 PAMPA, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1KG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD JS3 RES

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230819

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A000EA

Registrant of record

MOZER ERIC H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

TINY HAWK P6E · N1KG

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IMPACTED IN NR VERTICAL ATTITUDE,NO PROP ROTATION.

Investigator remarks

NO ENG MALFUNCTION FOUND. RECOVERY DATE 5/5/76.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/66 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint 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 1211. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1211.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.