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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4020

1964-09-17 CALIPATRIA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N44816

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY N3N-3

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A56AEF

Registrant of record

SWAGER SHANNON D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N44816 NAVY N3N 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

NAVY N3N · N44816

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DL

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,277 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,000

Age

27

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 2929. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2929.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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