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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0837

1964-03-07 PORT ST JOE, Florida, United States Minor 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

TAYLORCRAFT BL65 · N26660

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

A1 (A1)

Total hours

477

Age

311

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/B/49 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE
  • 88/A/87 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 3 0608. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0608.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.