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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1745

1964-05-12 SEWARD, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3384P Piper PA23 Fatal

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

PIPER PA23 · N3384P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Y

Airport

SEWARD MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

CE

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Total time

1,220 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

D4 (D4)

Total hours

170,000

Age

411

Investigator remarks

TEMP 58F

Cause factors

88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
68/C/D5 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause
82/C/L C
WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause
88/L/55 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION
64/3/01 3
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Subordinate · 3

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 0320. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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