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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0186

1967-10-20 FALLON, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5138T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WAGNER DANIEL EARLY BIRD JENNY

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

VOLKSWAGEN CONVERSION (36 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930803

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67016

Registrant of record

WAGNER DANIEL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5138T Champion 7GCA 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

CHAMPION 7GCA · N5138T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FALLON MUNI

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

176 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

100

Age

36

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 3691. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3691.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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