Event UNK64X0905

1964-03-14 EL DORADO, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7613B BEECHCRAFT A45 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

BEECHCRAFT A45 · N7613B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

L

Airport

EL DORADO

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

B (B)

Total hours

573

Age

44

Cause factors

75/A/AJ A
SYSTEMS RELAYS AND WIRING Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D4 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CC A
AIRFRAME EMERGENCY/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY 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 0073. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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