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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FCJ34

1970-12-24 SIDNEY, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6002E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STANLEY VICTOR E FUN KIST 1

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19971023

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C9E2

Registrant of record

HADLEY ROBERT A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6002E Beech K35 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 K35 · N6002E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SIDNEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-5900

Total time

1,156 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

225

Age

45

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AL J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED 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 4502. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4502.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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