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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67F0333

1966-10-04 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9608Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-B33

Year of manufacture

1963 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD5FAD

Registrant of record

WILES WILLIAM W JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9608Y Beech 35-B33 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-B33 · N9608Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PANAMA CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 8 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

265 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,300

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NDICATORS OK.GEAR WARNING HORN WAS INOPERATIVE.

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR LIGHT AND NOSEWHEEL,GEAR-POSITION I

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/03 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS 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 3887. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3887.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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