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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72IC097

1972-06-03 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7819L Beech A65 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 A65 · N7819L

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

YOUNGSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

230° / 8 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LC257

Total time

1,867 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,294

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ET DUE DESTRUCTION.LOW ACFT USE.HOT START BFOR FLT

Investigator remarks

NI CAD BATTERY HAD THERMAL RUNAWAY.BATT COND UND

Cause factors

75/C/AA C
SYSTEMS BATTERIES Cause
88/A/CI A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
64/L/36 L
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER STARTING PROCEDURES
88/L/33 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE
88/L/51 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE

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 5 0025. Source file NTSB_1972_5_0025.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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