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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0401

1965-12-22 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5843Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-108

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630829

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7879D

Registrant of record

IKENBERG H L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5843Z Piper PA-22 Minor

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 · N5843Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

43° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,051 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

14

Age

28

Investigator remarks

GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3724. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3724.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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