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MKC66D0101

1965-06-23 · FRIEND, Kansas, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N61444 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GRABER PAUL CLASSIC, built 1992), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BOEING N2S-3 · N61444
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DL
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CA

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
135° / 8 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Total time
3,414 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,100
Age
45

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0306. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0306.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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