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CHI70AC055

1970-02-22 · PINEVILLE, Kentucky, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N11KB has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GLASER-DIRKS DG-500M), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH 95-B55 · N11KB
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000TC-1294
Total time
60 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,485
Age
44

Investigator remarks

STRUCK MTN SLOPE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0145. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0145.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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