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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68F0198

1968-01-13 BEAVER, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N952A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

2015

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A4M (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20150202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD3C15

Registrant of record

ARCHER AERO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N952A Beech E50 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

BEECH E50 · N952A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BEAVER

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,631 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

49

Investigator remarks

LEFT TIRE BLEW ON LANDING.

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0043. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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