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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD73FLQ33

1973-06-09 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 J35 · N593B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BLUE GRASS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

022° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-5398

Total time

2,951 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,210

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLOWN HAD FLAP AND GR CTLS OPPOSITE TO BEECH J35.

Investigator remarks

PIC RETRACTED LDG GR INSTEAD OF FLAPS.PREV ACFT

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 1723. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1723.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.