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CHI77FEV21

1977-04-14 · MT.VERNON, Illinois, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
ROCKWELL 500B · N90540
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
MT.VERNON-OUTLAND
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000895-4
Total time
5,263 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
2,204
Age
59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROKEN.

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN GEAR ACTUATING CLEVIS, P/N ED 12526, B

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CC A
    AIRFRAME EMERGENCY/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CM A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE,NONE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0550. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0550.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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