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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0905

1964-12-02 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 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

GRUMMAN G159 · N376

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DQ

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-STARTER CLUTCH SLIPPING ON AUX POWER UNIT

Investigator remarks

FIRE WARNING LIGHT CAME ON IN FLIGHT

Cause factors

  • 76/1/CY 1
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES OTHER Subordinate · 1
  • 84/1/J 1
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 5 0007. Source file NTSB_1964_5_0007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.