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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74DVM14

1973-12-02 MORGAN HILL, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22JK

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN AERONAUTICAL ST3KR

Year of manufacture

1942 · 31 years old at event

Engine

KINNER R5 SERIES (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730330

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DF7A

Registrant of record

ROUSSOPOULOS GARY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N22JK Ryan PT-22 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

RYAN PT-22 · N22JK

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

D

Airport

MORGAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001697

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

438

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T.LEFT ARM BROKEN BY PROPELLER STRIKE

Investigator remarks

GRND CREWMAN SLIPPED WHILE PROPPING FOR ENG STAR

Cause factors

68/A/K3 A
PERSONNEL GROUND CREWMAN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/A/BN A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RAMP/TAXIWAY Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3592. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3592.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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