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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DQG35

1979-05-02 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8541M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1963 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABB8BB

Registrant of record

PORTER MATTHEW R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8541M BEECHCRAFT P35 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

BEECHCRAFT P35 · N8541M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BIG SPRING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D7201

Total time

2,792 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

575

Age

40

Investigator remarks

WARNING HORN SYSTEM OUT OF ADJUSTMENT.

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
88/J/47 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT 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 0593. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0593.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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