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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX65A0058

1964-12-31 WRIGHTWOOD, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5506V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DESTINY DESTINY 2000/1B0155

Engine

ROTAX 582DCDI (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A702A9

Registrant of record

BERRIOS RAMON

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

BEECHCRAFT T34A · N5506V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Total time

3,752 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

118

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EDWARDS AFB, CALIF. TO SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

Investigator remarks

A/C DAMAGE & INJURY INDEX PRESUMED-ENROUTE FROM

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING 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 2 0986. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0986.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.