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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79DCG49

1979-06-06 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8648M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1963 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630912

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE12F

Registrant of record

HEINOL CHIP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8648M Beech P35 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 P35 · N8648M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JOHNSON CO EXEC

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D7252

Total time

4,079 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,910

Age

56

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 1201. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1201.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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