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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67F0126

1966-10-16 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1885D Beech C35 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

BEECH C35 · N1885D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

4,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

211

Age

44

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP LANDING.

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL 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 2896. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2896.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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