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FTW65A0094

1965-03-29 · AUSTIN, Texas, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N441J has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 441), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECHCRAFT B-55 · N441J
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
D
Airport
TIMS AIRPARK
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
140° / 8 kt
Temp
70° F

Aircraft history

Total time
855 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
817
Age
54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UKNOWN.

Investigator remarks

COMMERCIAL PILOT RATED PASSENGER-SEAT POSITION U

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 68/1/GS 1
    PERSONNEL Subordinate · 1

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0378. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0378.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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