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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FQA54

1976-07-08 RUIDOSO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N13986

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172R

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-L2A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080522

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A02F

Registrant of record

EURO 2000 INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N13986 Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N13986

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

RUIDOSO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4604

Total time

2,230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,677

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LIMITS WERE EXCEEDED.NOSE WHEEL BROKE FROM STRUT.

Investigator remarks

SUSPECT NOSE GEAR DAMAGE DURING TOWING AND TURN

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1606. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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