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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0021

1965-04-20 ARDMORE, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N659B BEECHCRAFT A-35 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

BEECHCRAFT A-35 · N659B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DOWNTOWN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,568 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,013

Age

30

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR WARNING HORN INOPERATIVE.

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

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 1245. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1245.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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