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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67F0191

1966-11-12 SJ CAPISTRANO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1223H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 421B

Year of manufacture

1973

Engine

CONT MOTOR GTSIO-520-C (340 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19740206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05DE9

Registrant of record

S&S LEASING SOLUTIONS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1223H Aeronca 15AC 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

AERONCA 15AC · N1223H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

S J CAPISTRANO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Total hours

600

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 4427. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4427.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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