Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / UNK64X2758

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2758

1964-07-11 MARION, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

TAYLORCRAFT BL65 · N29621

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,145 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

20

Age

22

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/A A
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2021. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2021.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.