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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69A0036

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

Registry · N7200C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19840105

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A5E7

Registrant of record

CACCAVALE JOHN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7200C Beech TC-45G Serious

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 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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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