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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3168

1964-08-02 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N50128 Taylorcraft DC065 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

TAYLORCRAFT DC065 · N50128

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

D

Airport

AERO ENTERPRISES

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

2,172 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

A1 (A1)

Total hours

511

Age

366

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D AIRCRAFT AERONCA 7DC M83124 SUBST. DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

PILOT PROPPED ENGINE, AIRCRAFT UNOCCUPIED. PARKE

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT 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 2303. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2303.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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