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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66A0019

1965-09-17 SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebraska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N67907

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206B

Year of manufacture

1995

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950712

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8FF9F

Registrant of record

CHURCHILL SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

DOUGLAS A-26 · N67907

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Business

Airport

SCTTSBLUFF

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Wind

140° / 8 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,091 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,846

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-ENTERED AREA OF KNOWN ICING CONDITIONS.

Investigator remarks

ACFT NOT ADEQUATELY EQUIPPED FOR AIRFRAME ICE.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/74 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
  • 64/1/33 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Subordinate · 1

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 2 0877. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0877.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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