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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66A0048

1965-11-20 PEARSON, Oklahoma, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N29718

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHRISTEN INDUSTRIES INC A-1

Year of manufacture

1989

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890130

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31217

Registrant of record

DIAMOND H RANCH INC

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

TAYLORCRAFT BC-12 · N29718

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Age

43

Cause factors

  • 64/C/04 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/A/63 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/K/C K
    WEATHER FOG Joint factor

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 1077. Source file NTSB_1965_2_1077.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.