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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0502

1965-12-24 PADUCAH, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5812S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROTARY AIR FORCE MARKETING RAF 2000 GTX SE

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

SUBARU ALL MDLS A/B (400 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030816

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A77C4E

Registrant of record

PRIBULA ERNEST D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5812S BEECHCRAFT B55 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

BEECHCRAFT B55 · N5812S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BARKLEY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 23 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Total time

521 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

900

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED 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 3707. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3707.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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