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Event SEA66A0014

1965-08-19 MEAD, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4132D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A4M (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190501

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4E1E7

Registrant of record

DOMINGUEZ LUIS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4132D HELIO ACFT H-391B Fatal

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

HELIO ACFT H-391B · N4132D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

190° / 12 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,609 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,680

Age

55

Cause factors

64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/X L
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
88/L/94 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 0998. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0998.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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