NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI77DEM30
Registry · N570S
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH 56TC
Year of manufacture
1969 · 8 years old at event
Engine
LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20010208
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A74FF9
Registrant of record
ROBINSON MICHAEL D
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
BEECH 56TC · N570S
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
CHERRY CAPITAL
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000000TG79
Total time
2,718 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,048
Age
48
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
HEAT PIPE WAS FOUND IN RT GR WELL AFTER ACCIDENT.
Investigator remarks
TIRE BLOWN OUT ON LAST TAKE OFF.A PIECE OF AUTO
Cause factors
- 70/A/CF A AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 84/A/D A MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/AH A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/94 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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
3 2247.
Source file
NTSB_1977_3_2247.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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