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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66A0019

1965-08-13 STATESVILLE, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8595A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A35

Year of manufacture

1949 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560809

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABCBCF

Registrant of record

NORTHSHORE FLYERS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8595A BEECHCRAFT A-35 Fatal

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

BEECHCRAFT A-35 · N8595A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

STATESVILLE MUNI.

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,486 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

200

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR TRIM TAB SETTING.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF WITH FULL NOSE-UP ELEVAT

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE 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 2 0680. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0680.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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