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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2179

1964-06-07 FRESNO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BEECHCRAFT 95-A55 · N1763G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

280

Age

33

Investigator remarks

WIND 20 KNOTS GUSTING TO 28 KNOTS

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 64/1/04 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Subordinate · 1
  • 64/1/29 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/67 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/62 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/65 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK Subordinate · 1

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 0698. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0698.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.