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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCO02

1972-07-07 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5025B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH H35

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570304

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A64467

Registrant of record

HAYES DAVID A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5025B Beech H35 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 H35 · N5025B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

NEWTON CITY-CNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-5003

Total time

2,688 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,105

Age

46

Investigator remarks

NOTICED DISCHARGE ON AMMETER.WARNING HORN INOP.

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/J/AC J
SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Joint cause
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS 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 2286. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2286.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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