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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0099

1965-06-02 WHITESBURG, Kentucky, 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

BEECHCRAFT K35 · N129JD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

1,074 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,956

Age

47

Cause factors

  • 64/C/04 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
  • 64/C/33 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
  • 88/L/94 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
  • 82/L/X L
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY

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 0604. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0604.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.