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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4217

1964-09-30 FAIRHOPE, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7683W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N7683W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FAIRHOPE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

191 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

21

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT BEING MOVED ACCOUNT HURRICANE HILDA

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
68/C/D4 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 3080. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3080.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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