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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0310

1967-10-16 GILLIAM, Louisiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N65598 Boeing B75N1 Serious

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

BOEING B75N1 · N65598

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

GILLIAM

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

19,854

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

M AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT. SEEDING WHEAT.

Investigator remarks

AFTER PROP BLADE SEPARATED, ENGINE SEPARATED FRO

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 0795. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0795.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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