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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FA046

1980-06-10 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N111AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 757-2G5

Seats / Engines

239 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02FFB

Registrant of record

AERSALE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N111AS Douglas DC-6 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

DOUGLAS DC-6 · N111AS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

INDIANAPOLIS INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

020° / 10 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000445223

Total time

41,004 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,100

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T OF LINK FOUND NR BGNG OF SEVERE NOSE WHL SHIMMY.

Investigator remarks

UPPER TORQUE LINK FAILED AT FATIGUE FRACTURE.PAR

Cause factors

70/A/CP A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CV A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE 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 1 0006. Source file NTSB_1980_1_0006.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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