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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66A0007

1965-07-06 GLENDEVEY, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N384CA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DIAMOND AIRCRAFT DA 40

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-M1A+ (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A46A59

Registrant of record

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N384CA BEECHCRAFT S35 Fatal

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 S35 · N384CA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 4 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

597 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,561

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-FELL ASLEEP DURING FLIGHT

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE 7/21/65.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 2 0570. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0570.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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