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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3051

1964-07-26 TUCSON, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N74718

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20B

Year of manufacture

1961 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-360-C4F (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050330

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0F27

Registrant of record

JORDAN VICTOR M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N74718 Mooney MK21 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 MK21 · N74718

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FREEWAY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

904 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

420

Age

21

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING 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 2224. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2224.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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