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UNK64X0303

1964-01-20 · BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N5500F has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH F33A, built 1989), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA 310E · N5500F
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B2

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
15,000
Age
54

Cause factors

  • 64/A/39 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 75/J/AA J
    SYSTEMS BATTERIES Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0160. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0160.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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