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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0082

1965-05-11 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4242D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G35

Year of manufacture

1956 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560112

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A50D1D

Registrant of record

NIELSON ERIK J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4242D BEECHCRAFT G-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 G-35 · N4242D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DEER VALLEY

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,720 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

27

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED 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 2283. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2283.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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