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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76DYA20

1976-02-16 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N362DB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G36

Year of manufacture

2010

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-B (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20101011

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A41407

Registrant of record

BB36 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N362DB Beech A60 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 A60 · N362DB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

FRIEDMAN MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

140° / 9 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000P-143

Total time

1,333 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,638

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOR RUNWAY.HIT SNOWBANK AT END.

Investigator remarks

INADEQUATE TAXI/RWY MARKING.PLT MISTOOK TAXIWAY

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/A5 J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES TAXIWAY LIGHTING AND MARKING Joint cause
80/J/BQ J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RAMP/TAXIWAY Joint cause
80/J/BD J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint cause
82/J/D J
WEATHER SNOW 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 0168. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0168.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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