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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0186

1965-12-04 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8944M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1965 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650830

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC5720

Registrant of record

ENGLAND NEIL DEAN JR TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8944M BEECHCRAFT S35 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 S35 · N8944M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DEER VALLEY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

69 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

530

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT FAILED TO EXTEND GEAR WITH MANUAL SYSTEM

Investigator remarks

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FAILED FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Cause factors

75/A/AY A
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES 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 3587. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3587.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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