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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0431

1966-01-13 BEDFORD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5060B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F35

Year of manufacture

1955 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550922

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A65294

Registrant of record

BOLIN WILLIAM E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

BEECHCRAFT F35 · N5060B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

HANSCOM

Kind of flying

B0

Aircraft history

Total time

2,280 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,500

Age

53

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/08 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 0014. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.