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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0152

1966-09-04 KOKOMO, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N35X Beech D18S 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 D18S · N35X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

KOKOMO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 15 kt

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,021 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,509

Age

45

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR SAFETY SWITCH LOOSE.

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CN J
AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Joint cause
68/J/D6 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 2304. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2304.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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