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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67A0081

1967-02-04 GROVELAND, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2561P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SKYRANGER STOLL SKYRANGER

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

JABIRU 2200 (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070918

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A27051

Registrant of record

STOLL KERWYN P

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

PIPER PA-22 · N2561P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

030° / 7 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,294 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OBSCD,VIS 1/2 MI,FOG.PLT RCVD WX BRIEFG 2058,FEB 3

Investigator remarks

PLT NOT INSTMT RATED.AT T/O ARPT WX-CEIL 100 FT

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 0233. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0233.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.