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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA68D0161

1968-02-11 FARMVILLE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N949MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH B200

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-42 (850 hp)

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20020212

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD2FAB

Registrant of record

MAJESTIC AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N949MA Cessna 150F 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

CESSNA 150F · N949MA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

290° / 15 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,693 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

74

Age

28

Investigator remarks

SUITABLE FLD WITHIN GLIDING RANGE.

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
64/K/03 K
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Joint factor

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 0224. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0224.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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