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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC65F0085

1965-03-14 LUVERNE, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N114S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C35

Year of manufacture

1951 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560607

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03C9F

Registrant of record

IRBY DARRELL L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N114S 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 · N114S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,991 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

495

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELD. PILOT SWITCHED TO EMPTY TANK.

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP LANDING ON SNOW COVERED FI

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/A/96 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 0687. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0687.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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