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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66D0420

1965-10-31 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6037W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-B55 (T42A)

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790514

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7D5C6

Registrant of record

MIDLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6037W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6037W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LAREDO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

589 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

60

Age

44

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3364. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3364.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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