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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0244

1964-01-14 MCGRATH, Alaska, United States None 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

CESSNA 180 · N5297D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

CJ

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,850

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IRCRAFT AROUND. THE ENGINE THEN SPEEDED-UP.

Investigator remarks

PILOT LEFT COCKPIT WITH ENGINE RUNNING TO TURN A

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/38 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Joint cause
  • 4A/3/8
    Code not found in ct_Pre1982 codebook

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 0119. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0119.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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