Event OAK68A0056

1968-01-28 HILO, Hawaii, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5510K Convair 640 Serious

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

CONVAIR 640 · N5510K

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Total time

26,188 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

19,350

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT BELT DURING TURB, WAS THROWN FROM SEAT.

Investigator remarks

SEAT BELT SIGN ON. PAX INADVERTENTLY RELEASED SE

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/12 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/L A
WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS 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 1 0035. Source file NTSB_1968_1_0035.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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