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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66D0051

1965-07-08 NEWARK, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4528P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-23-250

Year of manufacture

1960 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19600218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A57D08

Registrant of record

CARTAGENA CARLOS A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4528P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N4528P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NEWARK

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,732 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,800

Age

45

Investigator remarks

GEAR WARNING HORN INOPERATIVE

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED 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 1661. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1661.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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