NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW68A0090
Aircraft involved
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
BEECH 65 · N968Q
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
EC
Operator type
D
Airport
BEAUMONT
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
PARTIAL OBSCURATION
Aircraft history
Total time
1,025 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,900
Age
46
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
CLEROSIS. NO EVIDENCE OF PREIMPACT INCAPACITATION.
Investigator remarks
AUTOPSY DISCLOSED A FINDING OF CORONARY ARTERIOS
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
3 2404.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_2404.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 · Journal article (IJAAA)
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- NASA NTRS 2024 · Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Inverse Modeling of the Initial Stage of the 1991 Pinatubo Volcanic Cloud Accounting for Radiative Feedback of Volcanic Ash
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- NASA NTRS 2024 · Reprint (Version printed in journal)
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