Event UNK64X1511

1964-04-29 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4483K Navion NAV4 None

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

NAVION NAV4 · N4483K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLOVER FIELD

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

F6 (F6)

Total hours

6,277

Age

244

Cause factors

88/A/96 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL 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 1077. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1077.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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