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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68A0016

1967-08-08 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1866C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-C33A

Year of manufacture

1966 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A15A23

Registrant of record

SCIALABBA SAMUEL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1866C Douglas DC-4 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

DOUGLAS DC-4 · N1866C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

G

Airport

SAN ANTONIO INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

10,635 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

10,770

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NSPECTION DID NOT DISCLOSE ANY GEAR MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

RETRACTION TESTS AND COMPONENT DISASSEMBLY AND I

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 2 0547. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0547.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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