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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X1450

1965-02-23 LOUISVILLE, Mississippi, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2306Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 23

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630405

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20BB9

Registrant of record

VANDERWIELEN JOSEPH M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2306Q BEECHCRAFT A-23 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 A-23 · N2306Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LOUISVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

723 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

57

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
68/L/K4 L
PERSONNEL PASSENGER
88/L/77 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 0502. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0502.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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