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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0371

1967-12-01 FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6659U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20D

Year of manufacture

1963 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630225

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8CA72

Registrant of record

HEMPY DAVID

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6659U Mooney M20D 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

MOONEY M20D · N6659U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

DRAKE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,029 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

528

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED 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 4218. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4218.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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