Event UNK64X4203

1964-09-29 ELMIRA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7456 VISCOUNT 745D 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

VISCOUNT 745D · N7456

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

B0

Airport

CHEMUNG COUNTY

Pilot

Certificate

A (A)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ABNORMAL NOISE DURING TAXI.

Investigator remarks

PILOT TOOK OFF WITHOUT INSPECTION FOR SOURCE OF

Cause factors

64/1/15 1
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Subordinate · 1
64/1/34 1
PILOT IN COMMAND OPERATED CARELESSLY Subordinate · 1

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 4 0034. Source file NTSB_1964_4_0034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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