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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76AI025

1975-11-17 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5611D Beech E18S 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 E18S · N5611D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BLUE GRASS FIELD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

030° / 16 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-316

Total time

12,291 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,000

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OK.

Investigator remarks

TAXIED OVER STEEP EMBANKMENT, BRAKE SYS CKD OK.

Cause factors

64/A/50 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint 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 3592. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3592.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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