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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FLA28

1977-05-04 JACKSONVILLE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N318G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-C33A

Year of manufacture

1966 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700925

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3651F

Registrant of record

AERO FLIERS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N318G Beech C33A 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 C33A · N318G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

CRAIG FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CE-71

Total time

393 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

416

Age

49

Investigator remarks

INSTEAD OF FLAPS.

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 1774. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1774.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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