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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2742

1964-07-09 PARROTSVILLE, Tennessee, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7405 VISCOUNT 745D Fatal

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

VISCOUNT 745D · N7405

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 7 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Total time

23,804 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,665

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NO.4 EMERGENCY ESCAPE WINDOW PRIOR TO IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

ONE PASSENGER ABANDONED THE AIRCRAFT THROUGH THE

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause
88/L/50 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT

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 1 0033. Source file NTSB_1964_1_0033.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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