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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA68A0034

1968-03-02 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N281FM Beech E18S Fatal

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 E18S · N281FM

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

ROWAN COUNTY

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Total time

7,311 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,539

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NITION UNDETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

FIRE OCCURRED AT REAR OF INST PANEL.SOURCE OF IG

Cause factors

88/C/50 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT 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 1057. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1057.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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