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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC65A0062

1965-04-22 HERMOSA, South Dakota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 T-34 · N4988E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

56° F

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,500

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FUEL THIS MAY BE WRONG GRADE OR ERROR OF REPORT.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT REPORTED TO BE SERVICED WITH 115-145 OC

Cause factors

  • 66/A/16 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/37 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER Subordinate · 1

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 0213. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0213.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.