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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0607

1967-04-23 COMPTON, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2804V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35

Year of manufacture

1947 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D0F3

Registrant of record

PLUMCRAZY AVIATION LLC

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

BEECH 35 · N2804V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BRESSON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,420 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

245

Age

68

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RAKE INOP DUE RETAINER RING OUT OF GROOVE.

Investigator remarks

L BRAKE MASTER CYL SEPARATED JAMMED L.RUDDER.L.B

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CJ C
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1324. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1324.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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