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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68F0105

1967-09-03 TULARE, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5025V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

ROTAX 503UL (52 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A64479

Registrant of record

BUSH BRYAN P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5025V Boeing E75 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

BOEING E75 · N5025V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,183 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,000

Age

48

Investigator remarks

CAM GEAR FAILED,P/N 3965.SPRAYING ALFALFA.

Cause factors

74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause

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 3279. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3279.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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