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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0314

1966-04-21 SAFFORD, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N78081 SWIFT GC-1B 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

SWIFT GC-1B · N78081

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SAFFORD SUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

549 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,100

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D COLLAPSED. PILOT NOT CHECKED OUT IN AIRCRAFT.

Investigator remarks

PILOT TURNED HYDRAULIC PUMP OFF-GEAR UNLOCKED AN

Cause factors

64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/31 J
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 0966. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0966.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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