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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66A0029

1965-10-19 BLANDING, Utah, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5238C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC 369E

TCDS

H3WE · MD HELICOPTERS INC (MDHI)

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19870528

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A69786

Registrant of record

AVIATION ADVANTAGE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5238C BEECHCRAFT B35 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 B35 · N5238C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BLANDING MUNICIPA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,675 hrs

Pilot

Total hours

1,500

Age

50

Investigator remarks

LANDING APPROACH WAS OVER DARK UNLIGHTED TERRAIN

Cause factors

64/A/48 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0937. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0937.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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