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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X1142

1964-12-26 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

PIPER PA24 · N8103P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,850

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/A/39 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AL J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED Joint cause

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 3880. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3880.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.