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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3710

1964-08-31 TIPTON, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

SWIFT GC1B · N3208K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

Z

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

550

Age

28

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP LANDING.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/80 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND 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 2712. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2712.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.