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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0533

1964-11-02 HALF MOON BAY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7719K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-20

Year of manufacture

1950 · 14 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20041001

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA705B

Registrant of record

HILLEGEIST TRACY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7719K Piper PA20 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

PIPER PA20 · N7719K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

HALF MOON BAY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 3389. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3389.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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