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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70FBA20

1970-05-25 KOKOMO, 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

BEECH 35 · N2851V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

GLENNDALE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 15 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D-256

Total time

2,494 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

66

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

VEERED L HIT CESSNA N6693T.CESSNA DMG NOT RPTD.

Investigator remarks

AFTER L/O ACFT SETTLED TO RWY.PLT LOST CTL,ACFT

Cause factors

  • 64/C/16 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/C/81 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF 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 2359. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2359.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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