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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76II032

1975-11-12 BECKLEY, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100BA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 99

Year of manufacture

1968 · 7 years old at event

Engine

P & W PT6A-28 (680 hp)

Seats / Engines

17 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20190725

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A004CE

Registrant of record

BEMIDJI AVIATION SERVICES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100BA Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N100BA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

RALEIGH COUNTY ME

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 6 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000273074

Total time

4,506 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MANIFOLD P/N 2524223-1.

Investigator remarks

FLEXIBLE HOSE ASSEMBLY,P/N 75203,BACKED OFF FUEL

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CI C
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
88/C/AU C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNDER TORQUED 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 5 0044. Source file NTSB_1975_5_0044.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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