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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0151

1965-11-15 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N141Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DEHAVILLAND DHC-6-300

Year of manufacture

1984

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-60A (1050 hp)

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19840223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A8A6

Registrant of record

USDA FOREST SERVICE

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

BEECHCRAFT E-185 · N141Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

225° / 15 kt

Temp

26° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,330 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,700

Age

53

Investigator remarks

SEEDING OPERATION

Cause factors

  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 3 3225. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.