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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72DKW18

1972-02-19 SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4665D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G35

Year of manufacture

1956 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561016

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5B2F0

Registrant of record

NEWKIRK BRIAN S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4665D Beech G35 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 G35 · N4665D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 25 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D4843

Total time

2,968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SING. ENG SEIZED.

Investigator remarks

SOURCE OF OIL LEAK APPEARED TO BE OIL SCREEN HOU

Cause factors

74/C/DY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 1151. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1151.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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