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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0815

1964-11-24 SALINA, Kansas, United States Serious 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

AERONCA 65TC · N34474

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,763 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,557

Age

37

Investigator remarks

BELIEVE PILOT ALSO STARTED SPIN TOO LOW.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/06 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE Subordinate · 1

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 0802. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0802.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.