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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66A0004

1965-08-08 RED BLUFF, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4261E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE MX-7-180AC

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000531

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A51469

Registrant of record

CONGER JON W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4261E Aeronca 11AC Fatal

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

AERONCA 11AC · N4261E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

BIDWELL FIELD

Kind of flying

CE

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 12 kt

Temp

89° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,153 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

70

Age

47

Investigator remarks

THE RIGHT SIDE CABIN DOOR OF N4261E WAS REMOVED.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AD J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNAPPROVED MODIFICATION 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 0761. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0761.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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