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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65D0146

1965-03-13 JACKSONVILLE, Illinois, 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

CESSNA 172A · N7470T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JACKSONVILLE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 10 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CRACK.

Investigator remarks

FATIGUE FAILURE OF NOSE GEAR FORK IN AREA OF OLD

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CE A
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/D6 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 0858. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0858.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.