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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69A0019

1968-10-01 KENAI, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N674T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35A

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690528

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8EC3D

Registrant of record

TUMBLING MIRTH MT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N674T Beech D50A Fatal

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

BEECH D50A · N674T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

E

Airport

NICOLAI CREEK

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

045° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,445 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,765

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AR WAS DOWN,FLAPS SET 20 DEG.

Investigator remarks

ACFT CRASHED ON TIDE FLATS SHORTLY AFTER T/O. GE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3543. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3543.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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