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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0204

1968-09-12 HENDERSON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9767Y 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 · N9767Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

HENDERSON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,208 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

213

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG FUEL INJECTION LINE. FIRE PUT OUT WITH DIRT.

Investigator remarks

NO.3 CYL HEAD HAD MOVED OUT APPROX 1/2 IN SHEARI

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/L/51 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3085. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3085.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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