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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEX03

1980-10-24 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3133W Beech F33A Minor

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 F33A · N3133W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

INDIANAPOLIS INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CE465

Total time

1,330 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,273

Age

57

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
74/L/BB L
POWERPLANT DISTRIBUTOR
88/L/AR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS
88/L/64 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL
74/L/G1 L
POWERPLANT MUFFLERS
88/L/CF L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED

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 3548. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3548.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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