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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3939

1964-09-12 ENDICOTT, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4353A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-150

Year of manufacture

1956 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A53873

Registrant of record

VINSON DAVID L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4353A Piper PA22 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 PA22 · N4353A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

TRI CITIES

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

53

Age

27

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF 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 2871. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2871.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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