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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69D0172

1969-02-03 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6023E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 76

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790322

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7D173

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6023E 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 · N6023E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FRIEDMAN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,007 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,300

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GHT MOONLIGHT.SNOW COVERED,UNLIGHTED ARPT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT LANDED IN AREA BETWEEN RNWY AND TAXIWAY.BRI

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause

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 0349. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0349.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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