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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0300

1965-10-24 KEYSTONE HTS, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9500R BEECHCRAFT K35 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 K35 · N9500R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

KEYSTONE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,300

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RGENCY GEAR EXTENSION SYSTEM WAS OPERATIVE.

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR MOTOR BRUSHES EXCESSIVELY WORN. EME

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CB J
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Joint cause
75/J/AK J
SYSTEMS MOTORS 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 3123. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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