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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FA066

1979-10-22 DUBOIS, Wyoming, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N60234 Beech C33 Fatal

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 C33 · N60234

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000DC878

Total time

3,177 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

400

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T MTN 11500FT MSL.RECOVERY DATE 9/14/81.

Investigator remarks

LOCAL SIGHTSEEING FLT TO WIND RIVER MTN RANGE.HI

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3092. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3092.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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