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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3778

1964-09-04 PARKER, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8745T Cessna 182C Fatal

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

CESSNA 182C · N8745T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,372 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OP DURING DOCKING OF PLANE

Investigator remarks

INADEQUATE CAUTION AND INATTENTION OF PASS TO PR

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/79 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Subordinate · 1

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 2 0653. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0653.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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