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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4109

1964-09-23 PLACERVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N626T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DIAMOND AIRCRAFT DA 40

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050815

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A82E30

Registrant of record

TONKAWA ROAD HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N626T BEECHCRAFT H35 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

BEECHCRAFT H35 · N626T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PLACERVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

600 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

39

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 2989. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2989.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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