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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66F0571

1966-05-20 BROKEN BOW, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N545T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH N35

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6EC28

Registrant of record

YOUNG TRINITY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N545T Beech N35 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 N35 · N545T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

BROKEN BOW MUNI.

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,873 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,500

Age

46

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 2217. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2217.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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