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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FDD14

1970-10-15 BISMARCK, North Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8551P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-260

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABBC74

Registrant of record

BRATCHER TROY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8551P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N8551P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BISMARCK MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4008

Total time

1,236 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,360

Age

59

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED 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 3951. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3951.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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