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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0179

1965-11-14 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N659T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35B

Year of manufacture

1972

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720605

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8AFD2

Registrant of record

LUCY DONALD E III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N659T BEECHCRAFT B-95 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 B-95 · N659T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

31

Investigator remarks

OFF AIRPORT OPERATION

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 3502. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3502.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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