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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA82IA002

1981-10-12 JACKSONVILLE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5BA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G18S

Year of manufacture

1962 · 19 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19620705

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63558

Registrant of record

CARLSBAD RACEWAY CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5BA Beech G18S 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 G18S · N5BA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

JACKSONVILLE INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 6 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-614

Total time

7,770 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,015

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LNDG GEAR CLUTCH NOT RTRND NORM PSN AFT EMERG EXTN

Investigator remarks

NO 1 REV CURRENT RELAY MALF,NO 2 GEN BCM OVRLDD.

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/J/AJ J
SYSTEMS RELAYS AND WIRING Joint cause
88/J/95 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Joint cause
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE 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 3193. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3193.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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