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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76DTC09

1975-08-03 CASPER, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101LL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING 0-360-A1D (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000731

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00970

Registrant of record

TRIBECA AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101LL Cessna 185A 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 185A · N101LL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NATRONA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

386

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D CRACK IN RIM.TT ON WHEEL UNKNOWN.PN162-4.

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN WHEEL OUTER HALF FAILED THRU UNDETECTE

Cause factors

70/A/CF A
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 2183. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2183.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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