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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEM56

1973-05-14 IRON RIVER, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3499B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH E35

Year of manufacture

1954 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551216

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3E252

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3499B Beech E35 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 E35 · N3499B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

STAMBAUGH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D3717

Total time

4,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,588

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON PREV LDG RTRCTD GR MADE GO-AROUND.

Investigator remarks

LOOSE CONNECTION IN GEAR WARN HORN.ENCTRD DWNDFT

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS Joint cause
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE 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 1601. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1601.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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