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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0132

1964-10-03 WATERVILLE, Washington, United States Fatal 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

PIPER PA-18 · N7221K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Total time

380 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

159

Age

53

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE-10/04/64.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/67 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint 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 2 0735. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0735.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.