NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW69F0266
Registry · N70U
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH 65-A90-1
Year of manufacture
1967 · 1 years old at event
Engine
P & W PT6A-34 (750 hp)
Seats / Engines
9 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20170914
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A953F7
Registrant of record
DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC
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
GRUMMAN G-44 · N70U
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Business
Airport
NAS NEW ORLEANS
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Total time
10,308 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
16,000
Age
48
Cause factors
- 64/A/11 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO RETRACT LANDING 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 3822.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_3822.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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