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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2568

1964-06-29 SIDNEY, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4785Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-108

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610323

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5E1F1

Registrant of record

MEIGS DAVID C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4785Z Piper PA22 None

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 PA22 · N4785Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SIDNEY MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,095 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

46

Age

35

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/A/F A
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 3 1872. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1872.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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