Event UNK64X2649

1964-07-04 CANANDAIGUA, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6839Q BEECHCRAFT S35 Serious

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

BEECHCRAFT S35 · N6839Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CANADAIGUA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

122 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

B2 (B2)

Total hours

4,000

Age

377

Cause factors

64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/AQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Cause
64/L/46 L
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND

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 0444. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0444.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.