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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0261

1965-10-16 GASTONIA, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2845V BEECHCRAFT D35 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

BEECHCRAFT D35 · N2845V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,378 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

235

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

217-26

Investigator remarks

PROPELLER PITCH MOTOR GEAR SHAFT FAILED P/N 901-

Cause factors

74/C/FC C
POWERPLANT ELECTRIC PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2896. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2896.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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