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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66A0016

1965-10-12 MARYSVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 B35 · N834R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

YUBA COUNTY

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 5 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,146 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,321

Age

36

Investigator remarks

GEAR WARNING HORN MALFUNCTIONED

Cause factors

  • 64/A/39 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED 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 3793. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3793.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.