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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1273

1964-04-12 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5699P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1959 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A74BFA

Registrant of record

HAHN CURTIS D

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

PIPER PA24 · N5699P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SKYPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

B2 (B2)

Total hours

2,788

Age

388

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0906. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0906.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.