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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67D0139

1966-10-02 CHOWCHILLA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5066Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

QUICKSILVER SPRINT 2

Year of manufacture

1990

Engine

ROTAX 503DCSI (52 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060707

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6537C

Registrant of record

JONES DONALD E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5066Z 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 · N5066Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 8 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,999 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

13

Age

28

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2982. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2982.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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