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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70DXA01

1970-01-01 MEDICINE BOW, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5050T Beech K35 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 K35 · N5050T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D6031

Total time

1,612 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

176

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT SAID PWR LOSS OCRD APRX 500FT AGL DURG L TURN.

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON FARM ROAD,L WHEEL CAUGHT IN DEEP SNOW.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
83/B/B B
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED

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 0107. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0107.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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