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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65F0146

1965-04-05 EMPORIA, Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4245A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35B

Year of manufacture

1970

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A50D83

Registrant of record

MAC FLIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4245A Piper PA-19 Minor

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

PIPER PA-19 · N4245A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

L

Airport

EMPORIA MUN

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,417 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N AT CONTROLS

Investigator remarks

PILOT HAND PROPPED ENGINE WITH UNQUALIFIED PERSO

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0715. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0715.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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