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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKG94

1972-04-26 AUGUSTA, Georgia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8633Q Beech S35 Serious

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 S35 · N8633Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

DANIEL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7651

Total time

2,147 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

794

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT PITCH. LND ACROSS HIWAY MEDIAN.

Investigator remarks

PITCH CHNG PIN P/N S84BO FAILED. PROP WENT TO FL

Cause factors

74/C/FD C
POWERPLANT HYDRAULIC PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 0434. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0434.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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