NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI66A0013
Registry · N8636A
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH A36
Year of manufacture
1982
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19970717
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S ABDD27
Registrant of record
36A LTD
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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 A35 · N8636A
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Airport
HAAR
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Aircraft history
Total time
4,360 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,000
Age
44
Investigator remarks
AIRCRAFT ENTERED THUNDERSTORM.
Cause factors
- 64/C/04 C PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
- 64/C/05 C PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED FLIGHT INTO KNOWN AREAS OF SEVERE TURBULENCE Cause
- 88/A/94 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/L/L L WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS
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 0678.
Source file
NTSB_1965_2_0678.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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