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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0314

1969-11-04 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6879T Cessna 310D 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 310D · N6879T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000039179

Total time

1,318 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

974

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PREVIOUS LDG GR ACDNT.

Investigator remarks

TORQUE LINKS ON BOTH GR FAILED. ACFT INVOLVED IN

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 4365. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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