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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69D0189

1968-08-10 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9387Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH N35

Year of manufacture

1960 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19601117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD06C5

Registrant of record

GIORDANO JAMES J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9387Y Beech N35 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 N35 · N9387Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

957 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

17,000

Age

70

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 3 2700. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2700.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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