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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEA02

1974-07-10 BEDFORD, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1259G Cessna 310Q Serious

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

CESSNA 310Q · N1259G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

K

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310Q1110

Total time

5 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

17,950

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y FORMED.

Investigator remarks

FERRY FLT.PART NR B-20129 SPRING DRIVE IMPROPERL

Cause factors

68/C/J0 C
PERSONNEL SUBSTANDARD QUALITY CONTROL Cause
74/C/FG C
POWERPLANT GOVERNORS Cause
88/C/41 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RPM-UNCONTROLLABLE-OVERSPEED Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3624. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3624.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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