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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0144

1968-09-19 MOJAVE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N106D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SONEX AIRCRAFT SONEX

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

JABIRU 3300 (120 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01B49

Registrant of record

BITTINGER DARREN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N106D Canadair T-33 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

CANADAIR T-33 · N106D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000288

Total time

2,732 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,550

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SHUT ENG DOWN,EJECTED WHEN LIGHT REMAINED LIT.

Investigator remarks

ENG FIRE WARNING LIGHT CAME ON AT 12000 FT. PLT

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause
88/L/51 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE

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 4925. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4925.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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