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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FCQ15

1980-05-02 HAYS, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N47347

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-34-200T

Year of manufacture

1977 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19770902

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5CF43

Registrant of record

ALASKA YUKON AVIATION MINISTRIES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N47347 Piper PA-34 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-34 · N47347

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

HAYS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000007770387

Total time

705 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,026

Age

27

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 1196. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1196.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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