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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66D0526

1966-01-16 FRANKLIN, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3333K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C125 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3A3BF

Registrant of record

ORTET JON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

GLOBE 125 · N3333K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FRANKLIN

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Total time

820 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

26

Age

33

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR 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 0061. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0061.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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