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Event CHI79FEI10

1979-01-24 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N744JC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-31-325

Year of manufacture

1979 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20001228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0231

Registrant of record

ACK-PG-LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N744JC LEAR JET 24D 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

LEAR JET 24D · N744JC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

YOUNGSTOWN MUNI

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

080° / 6 kt

Temp

38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000323

Total time

2,175 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,295

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FWD & REAR TRUNNION AREAS.PLT RPRT SMOOTH LNDG.

Investigator remarks

R MAIN GEAR UPPER STRUT(CYL FORGING)FRACTURED AT

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1743. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1743.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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