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FTW66A0048

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

N29718 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CHRISTEN INDUSTRIES INC A-1, built 1989), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 1077. Source file NTSB_1965_2_1077.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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