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UNK65X1181

1964-12-29 · STRANDBURG, South Dakota, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N5548H has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (SOCATA TB 10), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA17 · N5548H
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Temp
15° F

Aircraft history

Total time
667 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
750
Age
52

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/F A
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3884. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3884.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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