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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X1518

1965-07-25 BIMINI IS, Other Foreign, Bahamas None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N84T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHEMPP-HIRTH K. G NIMBUS II

Year of manufacture

1976

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760624

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB7F29

Registrant of record

CLAUSING THEODORE A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N84T AERO CMDR 680 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

AERO CMDR 680 · N84T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

170° / 6 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,500

Age

41

Investigator remarks

FAA REPORT

Cause factors

74/3/KA 3
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Subordinate · 3
88/3/88 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Subordinate · 3

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 6 0047. Source file NTSB_1965_6_0047.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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