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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0219

1967-09-04 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9545Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1962 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD46A1

Registrant of record

FOSTER JOHN BRADY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9545Y Beech P35 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 P35 · N9545Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 8 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,590 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,750

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERED 42 INS OFF LT WING.LANDED NO FURTHER DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

PLT AT 1400 FT,PROBABLY STRUCK TV GUIDE WIRE;SEV

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3184. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3184.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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