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IAD78FA095

1978-08-16 · HICKORY, North Carolina, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH D-55 · N526Q
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
Business
Airport
HICKORY MUNICIPAL
Kind of flying
A2

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000TE-485
Total time
1,752 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
8,355
Age
47

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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2177. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2177.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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