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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66D0183

1965-12-05 RAVENDALE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6559W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1965 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8A2F5

Registrant of record

HARRISON MICHAEL W DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6559W Piper PA-28 None

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-28 · N6559W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

503 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

23

Age

22

Cause factors

88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
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 3798. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3798.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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