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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW82DRD02

1981-10-16 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5513E Cessna A185F 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

CESSNA A185F · N5513E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003986

Total time

1,081 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,180

Age

43

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN BAYOU.

Cause factors

64/C/11 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO RETRACT LANDING GEAR 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 2516. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2516.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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