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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3979

1964-09-14 FARMINGTON, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N73126 Convair CV-440 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

CONVAIR CV-440 · N73126

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

MUNICIPAL

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

250° / 15 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Total time

23,048 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

20,196

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING LEVEL OFF-TOUCHDOWN PHASE OF LANDING.

Investigator remarks

FLT ENCOUNTERED RAIN OF UNEXPECTED INTENSITY DUR

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
82/C/B C
WEATHER RAIN 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 1 0060. Source file NTSB_1964_1_0060.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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