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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DXQ18

1979-11-09 ELKO, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N661V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-33

Year of manufacture

1960 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650311

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8B9CB

Registrant of record

DGJ TEX LLC DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N661V Beech 35-33 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 35-33 · N661V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ELKO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

36° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CD-83

Total time

2,481 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,630

Age

57

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 3853. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3853.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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