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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0857

1964-11-27 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2973B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D35

Year of manufacture

1953 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560501

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3123E

Registrant of record

LIGHTLE THEODORE L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2973B BEECHCRAFT D35 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

BEECHCRAFT D35 · N2973B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CEDAR RAPIDS MUN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Total time

3,754 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,500

Age

49

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/L/04 L
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS
82/L/F L
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC.
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
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 3563. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3563.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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