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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0067

1965-01-03 HENDERSON, Kentucky, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N208UB BEECHCRAFT E18S 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

BEECHCRAFT E18S · N208UB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 3 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,995 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,341

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ION OF NO.1 ENGINE PROPELLER BLADE.

Investigator remarks

NO.1 ENGINE TEARAWAY FOLLOWING IN-FLIGHT-SEPARAT

Cause factors

74/C/ZD C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/C/49 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
68/C/D4 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 0599. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0599.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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