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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0581

1966-02-13 WABASH, Indiana, United States None 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 23 · N2324Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WABASH

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 20 kt

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Total time

825 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

157

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EXHAUSTED RESULTING IN BRAKE FAILURE

Investigator remarks

RIGHT BRAKE MASTER CYLINDER HYDRAULIC FLUID WAS

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CJ C
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
  • 88/C/AJ C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
  • 88/C/AK C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW FLUID LEVEL 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 3 0217. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0217.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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