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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0760

1964-02-29 WELLS, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8140E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-201

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19820415

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1A95

Registrant of record

PROPPE KARL H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8140E Mooney MK20 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 MK20 · N8140E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,725

Age

58

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR 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 0515. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0515.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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