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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80FA066

1980-07-04 WASSAW IS, Georgia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N35MS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1964 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3E398

Registrant of record

HAZELTINE HUGH J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N35MS Beech C18S 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 C18S · N35MS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006947

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ONBOARD,PRODUCES BLINDING FUMES IF ATOMIZED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSD IN SHALLOW DSCNT TIL IMPACT.DIBROM 14

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
65/A/64 A
COPILOT 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 3035. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3035.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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