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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0255

1966-01-23 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7974D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH H35

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19830414

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAD4EE

Registrant of record

CHAFFIN GRANT M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7974D BEECHCRAFT H35 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 H35 · N7974D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DEER VALLEY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 5 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

904 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

46

Age

29

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION

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 0446. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0446.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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