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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76DCQ41

1976-03-13 BENTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N856R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-33

Year of manufacture

1959 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19591118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABBF19

Registrant of record

AEROSTREAM SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N856R Beech 35-33 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 35-33 · N856R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

BENTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000CD-8

Total time

3,178 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

137

Age

44

Investigator remarks

ACFT ROLLED AFTR START,HIT C-310 & CITABRIA.

Cause factors

64/A/21 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/CX J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CONGESTED RAMP/TAXIWAY Joint cause
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT 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 3 0386. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0386.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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