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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74DLQ10

1973-09-26 HAZARD, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1792W Beech E55 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 E55 · N1792W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

HAZARD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TE-892

Total time

493 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,684

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UN DTRMN WHICH EVENT OCCURRED FIRST.

Investigator remarks

DUE TO TYPE AND EXTENT OF DMG TO GR RETRACT SYS,

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 3464. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3464.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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