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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC65D0116

1965-04-06 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5796K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-B33

Year of manufacture

1964 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640819

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7730C

Registrant of record

COOKSY KEVIN

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

BEECHCRAFT 35-B33 · N5796K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

NEWTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

180 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

315

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 0882. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0882.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.