Event UNK64X0522

1964-02-09 VAN NUYS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6685C BEECHCRAFT C18S 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

BEECHCRAFT C18S · N6685C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

B (B)

Total hours

413

Age

52

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 0326. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0326.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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