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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0330

1964-10-18 CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3048C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH J35

Year of manufacture

1958 · 6 years old at event

TCDS

3A15 · BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP NKA TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581009

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A331A1

Registrant of record

THOMPSON SEAN R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3048C BEECHCRAFT J35 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

BEECHCRAFT J35 · N3048C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CAPE GIRARDEAU

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

2,370 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,240

Age

50

Investigator remarks

FUEL INJECTION PUMP DEVELOPED NO PRESSURE.

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3258. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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