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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEG22

1979-07-29 WAYNESVILLE, Ohio, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9132T Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N9132T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WAYNESVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 4 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1150

Total time

5,045 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

347

Age

46

Investigator remarks

MIXTURE LEAN

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
74/L/AE L
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS
74/L/AF L
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES
88/L/CI L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED
74/L/AD L
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY
88/L/CL L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE TOO LOW

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 1856. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1856.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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