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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVM49

1971-03-30 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N739MP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1965 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A70 SERIES (165 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9ED9B

Registrant of record

ARNOLD NELSON AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N739MP Beech S35 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

BEECH S35 · N739MP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MONTEREY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7817

Total time

1,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

651

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROD TO BEND.

Investigator remarks

R MAIN GR UPLOCK ROLLER SEIZED CAUSING ACTUATOR

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BA A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/94 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1074. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1074.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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