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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FTE30

1975-10-12 LAKE CITY, Colorado, United States None 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 95-B55 · N9033V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

E

Airport

DALE JONES RANCH

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 15 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000TC-1436

Total time

1,546 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,540

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARPT. HIT FENCE ACROSS RWY.

Investigator remarks

MISTOOK STRIP UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR NEARBY DEST

Cause factors

  • 64/A/03 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/17 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED AT WRONG AIRPORT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/AS A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/27 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING 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 3381. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3381.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.