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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0288

1964-10-16 SHERIDAN, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N204Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER ASW-20

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800307

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1A23D

Registrant of record

REHMEL CAREY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N204Q BEECHCRAFT B55 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 B55 · N204Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FORD RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

554

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3227. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3227.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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