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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DPG18

1981-04-17 EL DORADO, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N44W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 60

Year of manufacture

1968 · 13 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-541 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19681231

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54A38

Registrant of record

READY AIM FLYER LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N44W Beech C55 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 C55 · N44W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GOODWIN

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 7 kt

Temp

83° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TE-146

Total time

2,033 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,388

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T FLAP & GEAR HANDLE CONFIGURATIONS.

Investigator remarks

PLT NORMALLY FLIES TWIN CESSNA THAT HAS DIFFEREN

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 0659. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0659.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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