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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DQA73

1973-11-03 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3478L Cessna TU206B 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

CESSNA TU206B · N3478L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

INDUSTRIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206-0778

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

20,000

Age

52

Investigator remarks

UPPER TORQUE ATTACHMENT BOLT BROKE

Cause factors

70/C/CE C
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause

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 3838. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3838.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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