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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68D0157

1967-11-23 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2938Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620307

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A30426

Registrant of record

FOSTER AMY L DBA

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

CESSNA 182 · N2938Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ROSWELL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,648 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,400

Age

46

Investigator remarks

NOSE WHEEL FORK FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CE C
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/L/CV L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE

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 4203. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4203.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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