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Event CHI88IA157

1988-07-06 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Airport · IND None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3063W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH B36TC

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19981122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A33872

Registrant of record

REICH MICHAEL A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

COMPONENT FAILURE DUE TO IMPROPER LUBRICATION BY THE OPERATORS MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_CHI88IA157.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (maintenance). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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