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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2486

1964-06-25 TRUCKEE, 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

GRUMMAN F7F-3 · N7619C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 30 kt

Pilot

Certificate

C3 (C3)

Total hours

133,000

Age

433

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/67 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0426. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0426.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.