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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0404

1964-10-24 MARANA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1567A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-B55 (T42A)

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19690630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E3C7

Registrant of record

KARSTEN STEVEN R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1567A Piper PA20 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 PA20 · N1567A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MARANA AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,147 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,900

Age

44

Cause factors

66/C/22 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3310. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3310.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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