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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68D0608

1968-05-05 HAMILTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1954D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C35

Year of manufacture

1952 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560609

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17DA6

Registrant of record

MONTES MURIEL E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1954D Beech C35 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

BEECH C35 · N1954D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

HAMILTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

438

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NUED FLIGHT TO PLAINVIEW.

Investigator remarks

PLT DID NOT REALIZE THE WINGS WERE DAMAGED,CONTI

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause

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 1368. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1368.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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