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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0433

1967-11-20 LONDON, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2987B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35

Year of manufacture

1953 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550806

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31681

Registrant of record

KROG DONALD C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2987B 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 · N2987B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,831 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHEELS UP LNDG.

Investigator remarks

NO.3 CYLINDER EXHAUST VALVE FAILED. INTENTIONAL

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

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 4072. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4072.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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