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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0301

1968-10-31 WALNUT RIDGE, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5139K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION A

Year of manufacture

1950 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560628

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67031

Registrant of record

STIFFEY JASON J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5139K Navion A 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

NAVION A · N5139K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

WALNUT RIDGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,098 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

160

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PREVENTED ACTUATING UP LOCKS,GR WOULD NOT UNLOCK.

Investigator remarks

CABLE FROM GR SELECTOR TO GR-UP LOCKS STRETCHED

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 3954. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3954.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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