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FTW66A0101

1966-05-12 · FT WORTH, Texas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CONVAIR CV-240 · N94208
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Airport
GREATER SOUTHWEST

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Total time
36,244 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
12,829

Investigator remarks

RIGHT ENGINE NO.3 PROPELLER BLADE FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 74/A/FA A
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 1 0036. Source file NTSB_1966_1_0036.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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