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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65F0060

1965-04-03 VAN WERT, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1079D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C90A

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

P&W PT6A SER (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19961224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0224C

Registrant of record

GUARDIAN FLIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1079D Cessna 195A 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

CESSNA 195A · N1079D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

VAN WERT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 15 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

810 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,102

Age

36

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN GEAR STRUT FAILED.

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 0535. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0535.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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