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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74AC089

1974-05-14 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8814M Beech B55 Fatal

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 B55 · N8814M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BURKE LAKEFRONT

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

220° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TC592

Total time

1,991 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,184

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

1800-1850.LDG GR INTRANSIT PSN.WIND GUSTING 40K.

Investigator remarks

R PROP FEA.ENG CKD,R OK,L MIXT FULL RICH MAX RPM

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/K/31 K
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint factor
82/K/K K
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Joint factor
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3455. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3455.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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