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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71AF012

1970-09-16 ALEDO, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3643D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER AEROSTAR 600

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20040922

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A41DED

Registrant of record

NEVINS ROBERT

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

CESSNA 310 · N3643D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035343

Total time

3,027 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,459

Age

43

Investigator remarks

FLEW INTO KNOWN POOR WEA. LOST CTL.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause

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 4613. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4613.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.