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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2619

1964-07-03 LIGONIER, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N78009

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 777-224

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

GE GE90-90B

Seats / Engines

400 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19990420

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9300

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N78009 GLOBE SWIFT GC1B 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

GLOBE SWIFT GC1B · N78009

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

1,315 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

45

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM 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 1915. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1915.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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