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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67A0067

1967-04-24 LAKE CITY, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

BEECH C-45H · N9528Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

3,543 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,400

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTAIMS.3RD RUN LOWER AND SLOWER THAN PRIOR RUNS.

Investigator remarks

PLT ENGAGED IN AIR DROP OF TREE SEEDLINGS IN MOU

Cause factors

  • 64/A/45 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint cause
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE 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 2 0182. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0182.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.