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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66F0214

1966-01-06 SAN DIEGO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2988B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEN J OLIVER BUSHWAGON 2

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A3A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20120614

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A316A4

Registrant of record

LONGOBARDO ANTHONY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2988B BEECHCRAFT D35 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

BEECHCRAFT D35 · N2988B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LINDBERGH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 4 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,026 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

310

Age

51

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 0232. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0232.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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