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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3490

1964-08-20 HOUSTON, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N143E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2012

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20121115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0AE39

Registrant of record

RGS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N143E BEECHCRAFT B55 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

BEECHCRAFT B55 · N143E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HOUSTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,210

Age

36

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
88/C/AQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Cause

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 2554. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2554.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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