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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66D0243

1966-03-17 BLACKFOOT, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6039E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH K35

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590603

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7D5FC

Registrant of record

LANGFORD JOHN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6039E Beech K35 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 K35 · N6039E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

990 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

350

Age

34

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP LANDING

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/10 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR

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 4201. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4201.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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