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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70FBM18

1970-05-08 SOUTH BEND, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4123T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 320D

Year of manufacture

1966 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR GTSIO-520-C (340 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19660302

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4DE61

Registrant of record

RACE DEAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4123T Cessna 320D 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 320D · N4123T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Business

Airport

ST.JOSEPH COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 13 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000320D0023

Total time

1,758 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

7,524

Age

50

Investigator remarks

MAIN PIVOT BOLT L MLG RETRACT ASSY FAILED.

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY 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 2148. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2148.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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