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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0335

1965-12-09 CROSSVILLE, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5438D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH H35

Year of manufacture

1957 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570311

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6E685

Registrant of record

GANTER LEWIS C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5438D BEECHCRAFT H35 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 H35 · N5438D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CROSSVILLE TENN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,762 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

900

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RLY EXTEND WITH EMERGENCY EXTENSION SYSTEM

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR MOTOR FAILED. PILOT FAILED TO PROPE

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/AK A
SYSTEMS MOTORS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES 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 3418. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3418.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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