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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1945

1964-05-24 LANCASTER, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1972

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00355

Registrant of record

FIVE STATES HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

MINI MSTANG L1 · N10L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

WM J FOX

Kind of flying

B0

Aircraft history

Total time

122 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

F6 (F6)

Total hours

80,000

Age

466

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IT

Investigator remarks

PILOT WORE PARACHUTE NO APPARENT ATTEMPT TO USE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/09 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/J/AA J
    AIRFRAME SPARS Joint cause
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint 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 2 0313. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0313.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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