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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67F0135

1966-07-18 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N53232 Boeing A75N1 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

BOEING A75N1 · N53232

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,771 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,779

Age

48

Investigator remarks

PIECES OF GASKET BLOCKED CARBURETOR AIR INTAKE.

Cause factors

74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/J/34 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Joint cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2929. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2929.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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