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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FHD03

1977-12-29 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9012V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35A

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690521

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC7595

Registrant of record

ENGELHARDT JOHN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9012V Beech V35A 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 V35A · N9012V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D90002

Total time

2,281 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,311

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IMPROPERLY INSTALLED.

Investigator remarks

NUMBER 1,2,&3 CRANKSHAFT JOURNAL BEARING INSERTS

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4222. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4222.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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