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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0311

1965-11-16 ORLANDO, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4444D BEECHCRAFT G-35 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 G-35 · N4444D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HERNDON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,404 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FAILED TO DISENGAGE AUTO PILOT PITCH CONTROL

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT OVERAN END OF RUNWAY INTO A LAKE. PILOT

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3226. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3226.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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