Event FTW66A0001

1965-07-05 TEXARKANA, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7507A BOEING 707 123B 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

BOEING 707 123B · N7507A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

19,359 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

22,889

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TORM WITH LONG STREAMING ANVIL

Investigator remarks

HAIL ENCOUNTER WAS IN VICINITY OF LARGE THUNDERS

Cause factors

82/A/E A
WEATHER HAIL 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 1 0054. Source file NTSB_1965_1_0054.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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