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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DPG26

1981-05-13 BENTON, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6745M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 58

Year of manufacture

1980 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19800311

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8EDA7

Registrant of record

PERKINS COMMUNICATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6745M Beech B58 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 B58 · N6745M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SALINE CO

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

150° / 6 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000TH-1124

Total time

286 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,941

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& GEAR SWITCH POSITIONS REVERSED.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED PREVIOUS FLT IN BARON WHICH HAD FLAP

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 0660. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0660.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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