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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DTK10

1971-11-18 IPSWICH, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8657Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1964 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19641218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE4C6

Registrant of record

SCHMIDT JACK R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8657Q Beech S35 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 S35 · N8657Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

BLOEMENDAAL-TAYLO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

260° / 12 kt

Temp

43° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7738

Total time

2,453 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,400

Age

50

Investigator remarks

HI TIME ENG FAILED INTERNALLY. GR HIT DITCH.

Cause factors

74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 3573. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3573.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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