Event UNK64X3989

1964-09-14 FARMINGTON, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6203U 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 · N6203U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FARMINGTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Total time

632 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

285

Age

47

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CL A
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/47 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D1 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D5 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) 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 2903. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2903.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.