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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUG59

1972-03-23 RIVERSIDE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5646S Beech 35C33A 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 35C33A · N5646S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

RIVERSIDE MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CE-58

Total time

750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

261

Age

48

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/91 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING Joint cause

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 1233. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1233.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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