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UNK64X3094

1964-07-28 · PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY M-20A · N6024
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
D
Airport
PROVINCETOWN
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time
928 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
A1 (A1)
Age
588

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ECOVERY DATE-09/19/64.

Investigator remarks

PILOT BECAME LOST IN VFR-HIT MT-FAR OFF COURSE-R

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0600. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0600.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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