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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75II046

1975-01-29 HAZARD, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77RR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-B55 (T42A)

Year of manufacture

1964 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19641214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6835

Registrant of record

WILSON JONATHAN G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 55 · N77RR

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

HAZARD

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

150° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TC823

Total time

2,469 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,410

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E RWY TO AVOID EMBANKMENT.HIT EMBANKMENT DUE SPEED

Investigator remarks

PLT ATMTD TO STEER THE ACFT OFF THE R SIDE OF TH

Cause factors

  • 64/C/80 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 80/C/BA C
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Cause
  • 88/L/92 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY

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 5 0013. Source file NTSB_1975_5_0013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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