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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0013

1965-05-16 MOJAVE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1229X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 208

Year of manufacture

1992

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-114A (675 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130908

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05EC9

Registrant of record

TALKEETNA AERO SERVICES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1229X Mooney M21 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

MOONEY M21 · N1229X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KERN COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

596 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

44

Age

27

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 1789. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1789.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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