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MKC67F0118

1966-07-03 · RICE LAKE, Wisconsin, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N7513U has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (WATSON S-1S, built 1965), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PITTS SPECL · N7513U
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
ARROWHEAD
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
210° / 15 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Total time
21 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
5,000
Age
40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UEL STATE.PLT DIVED TO RESTART ENG.AND STRUCK GRND

Investigator remarks

PLT INIT.A SHARP,STEEP,INVERTED CLIMB WITH LOW F

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/19 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/52 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0494. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0494.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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