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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0188

1967-08-16 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5652Q Mooney M20E 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 M20E · N5652Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

CHICO MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

334 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

193

Age

49

Investigator remarks

LNDG GEAR WARNING HORN INOPERATIVE.

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause
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 3526. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3526.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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