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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0637

1967-04-09 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5654K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FANTASY SKY PROMOTIONS FANTASY NINE-122

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20220412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A73C6B

Registrant of record

AIR CARRIAGE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5654K Beech 35-33 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 35-33 · N5654K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 25 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,770 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

341

Age

24

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 1150. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1150.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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