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UNK64X2504

1964-06-26 · MCCREDIE SPGS, Oregon, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
ERCOUPE 415G · N94430
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Pilot

Certificate
B2 (B2)
Total hours
2,677
Age
433

Investigator remarks

MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0427. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0427.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.