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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65F0011

1965-02-04 CHEYENNE, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5877S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1965 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A79347

Registrant of record

NGUYEN TRI NGOC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5877S BEECHCRAFT S-35 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 S-35 · N5877S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CHEYNNE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 12 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

14 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

821

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N. NIGHT LANDING ON LIGHTED AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

VOLTAGE REGULATOR FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASO

Cause factors

75/A/AI A
SYSTEMS REGULATOR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2758. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2758.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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