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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRG65

1980-03-17 ALICE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N610JD Beech 65-A80 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 65-A80 · N610JD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ALICE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 5 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LD249

Total time

5,922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

947

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LNDG/TKOF LIGHTS BEGAN TO DIM THEN FAIL COMPLETELY

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED AFT RETRACTING GEAR IN FLT COCKPIT &

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Joint cause
88/J/07 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES 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 1294. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1294.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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