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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76AC046

1976-01-27 MARION, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N30RP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19821004

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31E7E

Registrant of record

COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N30RP Grumman G-1159 Minor

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

GRUMMAN G-1159 · N30RP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

MARION MUNI

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

13° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000113

Total time

2,080 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,000

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UNIT FROZE WITH BUILT IN TURN.

Investigator remarks

NOSEWHEEL STEERING CABLES FROZEN NOSEWHEEL STEER

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
70/C/CP C
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Cause
88/C/89 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FROZEN, MOISTURE 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 1376. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1376.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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