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DEN66F0078

1965-08-21 · GRAND CANYON, Arizona, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N88W has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (EMBRAER EXECUTIVE AIRCRAFT INC EMB-505), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
NAVION D-16 · N88W
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
GRAND CANYON
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
200° / 25 kt
Temp
70° F

Aircraft history

Total time
2,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
3,694
Age
45

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/W A
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0504. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0504.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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