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OAK66D0224

1966-03-15 · KAANAPALI, Hawaii, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N866H has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BELL 206B, built 1981), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH C45G · N866H
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
E
Airport
KAANAPALI
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
100° / 20 kt
Temp
80° F

Aircraft history

Total time
1,587 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
18,000
Age
54

Investigator remarks

CRODDWIND GUSTING TO 20 KNOTS

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0558. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0558.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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