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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82DVM05

1981-11-27 HOLLISTER, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N25198

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SONEX AIRCRAFT SONEX

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20001124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A25EE9

Registrant of record

SESTERS JAMES T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N25198 Piper PA-38 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

PIPER PA-38 · N25198

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HOLLISTER MUNI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-80A0053

Total time

1,190 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,890

Age

34

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

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 3007. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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