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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69D0392

1968-12-06 APPLETON, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5814X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310F

Year of manufacture

1961 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19610427

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A77C99

Registrant of record

EBERLY STEVEN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5814X Cessna 310F 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

CESSNA 310F · N5814X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

OUTAGAMIE

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

290° / 15 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,649 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,986

Age

43

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 4503. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4503.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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