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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DPG99

1976-08-15 VAN BUREN, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3015W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-B55 (T42A)

Year of manufacture

1973 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19730820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A32625

Registrant of record

DL321 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3015W Beech 95-B55 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 95-B55 · N3015W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

TWIN CITY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 3 kt

Temp

94° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC1594

Total time

550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,995

Age

53

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/CL C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE TOO LOW 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 2048. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2048.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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