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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUA05

1971-07-20 LONG BEACH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3489Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 320E

Year of manufacture

1967 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19670228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3DEA8

Registrant of record

PLANE PROGRESS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3489Q Cessna 320E 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

CESSNA 320E · N3489Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LONG BEACH

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000320E-0089

Total time

709 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

493

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CTION FOUND.

Investigator remarks

GR RETRACTION FOR UNDETERMINED REASON. NO MALFUN

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/1/13 1
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Subordinate · 1

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 2720. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2720.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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