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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67F0081

1966-08-20 PARADISE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N23021

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NANCHANG CHINA CJ-6A

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20B38

Registrant of record

SELBY JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N23021

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D8

Operator type

D

Airport

PARADISE SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,538 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

663

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROM GRAVITY FEED FUEL SYSTEM.

Investigator remarks

CLIMB ANGLE TOO STEEP FOR CONTINUOUS FUEL FLOW.F

Cause factors

  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/96 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
  • 88/L/14 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING
  • 88/3/67 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Subordinate · 3

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 0347. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.