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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66F0075

1965-09-19 ANGELS CAMP, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2352Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-23-250

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19791120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A21DC9

Registrant of record

PACIFIC FLEET AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2352Z BEECHCRAFT M-23 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

BEECHCRAFT M-23 · N2352Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FROG TOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

715 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

193

Age

54

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 2502. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2502.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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