Event MKC65A0070

1965-06-01 SAVANNAH, Missouri, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N94696 Ercoupe 415CD Fatal

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

ERCOUPE 415CD · N94696

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

64° F

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

41

Age

24

Cause factors

64/A/04 A
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS 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 2 0650. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0650.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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