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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2808

1964-07-13 DELTA BRIDGE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N268M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WACO ASO

Year of manufacture

1929 · 35 years old at event

Engine

JACOBS L4 /R755-7 (245 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550305

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A29DC8

Registrant of record

MOROZOWSKY JOHN S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

WACO ASO · N268M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 5 kt

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,600

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 2059. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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