Event UNK65X0437

1964-10-25 ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N73155 Convair CV-340 Minor

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

CONVAIR CV-340 · N73155

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

ROCK SPRINGS

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 5 kt

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Total time

17,172 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

19,774

Age

47

Cause factors

65/C/25 C
COPILOT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 1 0048. Source file NTSB_1964_1_0048.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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