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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC65F0073

1965-03-27 DONNELLSON, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7936K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1964 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640430

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAC65E

Registrant of record

TURBO AIR CHARTER LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7936K BEECHCRAFT S-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 S-35 · N7936K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Total time

403 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,029

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR PLT-SEAL ON OIL FILTER IMPROPERLY INSTALLED.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/82 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS 0IL EXHAUSTION-PROPELLER SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 0658. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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