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ANC65I0030

1964-12-04 · BETHEL, Alaska, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N1208 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ZENITH CH 750 CRUZER), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GRUMMAN G-73 · N1208
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
Z
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Airport
BETHEL

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time
4,329 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
10,000

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ICIENT FLUID/PRESSURE AVAIL TO LOCK DOWN NOSE GEAR

Investigator remarks

PILOT DEPLETED RES HYD FLUID-RESULTING IN INSUFF

Cause factors

  • 88/1/38 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDRAULIC FAILURE Subordinate · 1
  • 75/1/BE 1
    SYSTEMS FILTERS Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/AK 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW FLUID LEVEL Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/36 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Subordinate · 1
  • 88/1/07 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Subordinate · 1

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 4 0065. Source file NTSB_1964_4_0065.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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