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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0064

1966-12-14 ALAMO, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BOEING NA75A · N73878

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

MID-VALLEY DUSTER

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,648 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,700

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-FURTHER INCAPACITATED BY PARATHION POISONING

Cause factors

  • 64/A/64 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/65 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/1/J 1
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Subordinate · 1

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 1127. Source file NTSB_1966_2_1127.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.