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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67F0198

1966-09-07 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7979P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1962 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAD5A7

Registrant of record

SANDERS BILL H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7979P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N7979P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SHEPPARD AFB-MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

050° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,428 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,500

Age

35

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 2345. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2345.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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