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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FIA02

1979-11-08 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77PW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ARION AIRCRAFT LLC LIGHTNING XS

Year of manufacture

2020

Engine

TITAN IOX-340 SERIE (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200131

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6808

Registrant of record

GMELIN REINHARD GUENTHER

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77PW Beech 95-55 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 95-55 · N77PW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

WASHINGTON NAT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TC189

Total time

4,240 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,190

Age

46

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 3458. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3458.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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