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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68D0554

1968-04-23 MINOT, North Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55897

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN T-6G

Year of manufacture

1949 · 19 years old at event

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A720D6

Registrant of record

FREVERT BEN R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N55897 N.AMERICAN AT-6 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

N.AMERICAN AT-6 · N55897

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MINOT INTL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

4,591 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,285

Age

46

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE 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 1046. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1046.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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