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NYC69A0036

1968-09-18 · FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N7200C has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH A36, built 1983), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH TC-45G · N7200C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
E
Airport
CHESS-LAMBERTON
Kind of flying
CJ

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Wind
090° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time
1,199 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
18,000
Age
52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E HELP FROM ENG.STRUCK TREES RETURNING TO FLD.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATES LFT ENG LOST POWER.DID NOT FEATHER DU

Cause factors

  • 84/C/I C
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3525. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3525.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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