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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0376

1965-12-28 LEXINGTON, South Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4502Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-108

Year of manufacture

1960 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19601028

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A574D2

Registrant of record

BOYER BRUCE A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4502Z Piper PA22 Serious

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 PA22 · N4502Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Total time

776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

650

Age

24

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/3/21 3
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Subordinate · 3
88/3/34 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Subordinate · 3

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 0900. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0900.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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