NTSB CAROL · Event
Event UNK67X0108
Registry · N102S
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH A36
Year of manufacture
1979
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19791120
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A00DB2
Registrant of record
BFB ENTERPRISES LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
BEECH 18 · N102S
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Aircraft history
Total time
5,327 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,360
Age
35
Investigator remarks
INVESTIGATED AND REPORTED BY BRITISH GOVT.
Cause factors
- 64/A/04 A PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/B J WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
- 82/J/L J WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Joint 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
6 0003.
Source file
NTSB_1967_6_0003.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 · Industry report (AQRR)
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