Event CHI67A0138

1967-06-26 GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7451 Vickers 745D Serious

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

VICKERS 745D · N7451

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Airport

KENT COUNTY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

26,855 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,723

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.IMPROPER ACTION TAKEN ON PREVIOUS CREW WRITE-UPS.

Investigator remarks

NOSE WHEEL PIVOT PIN FAILED AT LUBRICATION HOLES

Cause factors

70/A/CP A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING 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/CV J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE Joint cause
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 1 0036. Source file NTSB_1967_1_0036.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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