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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC74FCJ37

1974-04-20 OGALLALA, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9079Q Beech 95-B55 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 95-B55 · N9079Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SEARLE FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC1370

Total time

624 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,128

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN SAME PSN AS FLAP SWITCH IN CESSNA.

Investigator remarks

PLT USUALLY FLIES CESSNA 340.GR SWITCH IN BEECH

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 0870. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0870.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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