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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0058

1968-06-15 VERGENNES, Vermont, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9597Q Beech 95-C55 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 95-C55 · N9597Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BASIN HARBOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

433 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,275

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

VMC SPEED REACHED. LEFT ENG FAILED. LOW FUEL TANK

Investigator remarks

PLT MADE RUNNING T/O,ACFT BECAME AIRBORNE BEFORE

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/24 B
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

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 2155. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2155.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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