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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66D0029

1965-05-28 SPENCER, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1538S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1962 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620517

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0D8D5

Registrant of record

DENEVE ALLEN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1538S BEECHCRAFT P-35 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

BEECHCRAFT P-35 · N1538S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Airport

SPENCER

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

740 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

204

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IAL DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

PARKED AIRCRAFT BEECHCRAFT C-45G N204AA SUBSTANT

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 1334. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1334.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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