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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74FVM12

1973-10-26 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7959Y Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N7959Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WATSONVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000030-1056

Total time

1,115 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,495

Age

40

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR RETRACT ARM PN21012-03 FAILED

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL 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 4003. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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