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UNK64X2825

1964-07-14 · NORTH CREEK, New York, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N74343 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22 BETA, built 2004), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BELLANCA 1413 · N74343
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
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time
1,820 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,460
Age
44

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AB C
    POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 68/C/D1 C
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
  • 68/C/D5 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2073. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.