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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75DLA10

1974-08-18 PANACEA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5015C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH B35

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560316

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A640B1

Registrant of record

KRUEGER HENDRIK JACOBUS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 B35 · N5015C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

WAKULLA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

030° / 8 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D2277

Total time

4,536 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,500

Age

59

Investigator remarks

LDG GR WARNING HORN INOP.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/08 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/03 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause
  • 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 2461. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2461.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.