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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2181

1964-06-07 TROY, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7202Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 300

Year of manufacture

1984

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-60A (1050 hp)

Seats / Engines

19 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20250604

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A641

Registrant of record

BOEING CO

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

PIPER PA-30 · N7202Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Total time

180 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

13,122

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-REASON RECOVERY FROM SPIN NOT MADE UNKNOWN

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN FLAT SPIN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/85 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 0907. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0907.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.