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Event DIA67D0006

1966-12-31 WAYNESBORO, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3000V Beech D35 None

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 D35 · N3000V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WAYNESBORO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

170° / 8 kt

Temp

36° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,146 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,435

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IGHT AND CAUSED WHEEL TO LOCK PRIOR TO LANDING.

Investigator remarks

MOISTURE ACCUMULATION IN RIGHT WHEEL FROZE IN FL

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/89 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FROZEN, MOISTURE Cause

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 3822. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3822.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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