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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3096

1964-07-29 PORT HEIDEN, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1582P Piper PA18A None

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

PIPER PA18A · N1582P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

075° / 40 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

44

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3665. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3665.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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