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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FQA26

1975-11-14 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N92523

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

LYCOMING 0-360-A1D (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACD377

Registrant of record

DURNER CHARLES L

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 · N92523

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SENATOR CLARK FLD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260244

Total time

1,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,033

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ASON UNDETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT VEERED LEFT WHEN NOSE WHEEL TOUCHED DOWN.RE

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CP C
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING 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 3682. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3682.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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