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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK65F0004

1965-03-08 LINCOLN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6594U Mooney M21 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

MOONEY M21 · N6594U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LINCOLN

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

523 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,400

Age

45

Investigator remarks

INOPERATIVE GEAR WARNING HORN

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 0243. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0243.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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