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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0199

1968-09-19 AUGUSTA, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7914D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH H35

Year of manufacture

1957 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570705

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AABEA4

Registrant of record

LOSEE DAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7914D Beech H35 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 H35 · N7914D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

AUGUSTA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,546 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

182

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DID NOT MANUALLY EXT GR.NOSE GR NOT LOCKED DOWN.

Investigator remarks

ELEC FAILURE DUE LOOSE GENERATOR DRIVE BELT.PLT

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Joint cause
68/J/D6 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Joint 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 3627. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3627.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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