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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0659

1967-04-23 FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8211 Beech E18S 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 E18S · N8211

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

FOND DU LAC CO.

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 8 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,766 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,400

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERATED INTERMITTENTLY.

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR DYNAMIC BRAKE RELAY P/N 6046H39A OP

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CN J
AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Joint cause

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 1258. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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