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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0097

1965-05-21 MACOMB, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 35-B33 · N8910M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MACOMB

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

676 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,342

Age

45

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR PARTIALLY OPENED DURING INITIAL CLIMB

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 0893. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0893.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.