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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81IA075

1981-07-11 DETROIT, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N355C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA 46-350P

Year of manufacture

2018

TCDS

A25SO · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AE2A (350 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20180413

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3F792

Registrant of record

VERTX FLEET HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 18 · N355C

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

DETROIT METRO

Kind of flying

CP

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 5 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA700

Total time

5,255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

14,070

Age

43

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 5 0041. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0041.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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