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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68A0013

1967-07-08 SLIDELL, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1016 Bensen B8M 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

BENSEN B8M · N1016

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

38 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

45

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L-2QTS/6GALS FUEL,INSTEAD OF SPEC.OIL-1QT/6GALS.

Investigator remarks

LNDED ON MARSH. PLT OCCASIONALLY USED STND.AV OI

Cause factors

74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
88/C/AR C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause
88/L/39 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER GRADE OIL-LUBRICATING SYSTEM

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 2 0371. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0371.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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