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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66D0168

1965-08-17 OKOBOJI, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8625M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19631112

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABD958

Registrant of record

AUTO & BIKE SHOP INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8625M BEECHCRAFT P-35 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

BEECHCRAFT P-35 · N8625M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

NEW INN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Total time

257 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

48

Investigator remarks

PASSENGER RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER 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 2352. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2352.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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