Event UNK64X1368

1964-04-18 FRIENDLY, Maryland, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N94755 Ercoupe 415CD Minor

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

ERCOUPE 415CD · N94755

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROSE VALLEY

Kind of flying

B1

Aircraft history

Total time

1,716 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

A (A)

Total hours

17

Age

52

Investigator remarks

FUEL PUMP DIAPHRAGM FAILED

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
68/C/D1 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
68/C/D5 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause

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 1175. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1175.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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