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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0150

1966-08-27 HAZARD, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3442B Beech D35 None

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 D35 · N3442B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HAZARD

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,035

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIRFIELD WITH AID OF AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHTS.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED TO PRACTICE LANDING ON UNLIGHTED

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/06 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE

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 2444. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2444.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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