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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67A0030

1966-09-20 ALBANY, Oregon, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N74115 Bensen B8-M Minor

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

BENSEN B8-M · N74115

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ALBANY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

10 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,900

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERLY,SPARK PLUGS BADLY FOULED.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK AIRPORT FENCE.MAGNETO NOT PERFORMING PROP

Cause factors

74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG 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 2 0955. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0955.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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