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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4195

1964-09-28 COLUSA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

FORNEY G · N94893

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

960 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

48

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT STRUCK AN UPROOTED TREE ON A FARM FIELD

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3065. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3065.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.