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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0087

1965-04-01 BLISSFIELD, Michigan, United States Fatal 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

CESSNA 310 · N3600D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

140° / 8 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,606 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,204

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RETAING SCREWS FAILED.PROP OVRSPD.WOULD NOT FEATHR

Investigator remarks

LFT PROP GOV-1 FLYWT RETAING PIN&BOTH FLYWT CUP

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FG C
    POWERPLANT GOVERNORS Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/C/41 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RPM-UNCONTROLLABLE-OVERSPEED Cause
  • 76/J/BC J
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES VOR RECEIVERS Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/D J
    WEATHER SNOW 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 0220. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0220.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.