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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FTC03

1975-07-15 AFTON, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8RH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HILL ROY A C WHISPER RG

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970415

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AADEAA

Registrant of record

OLSON ALAN B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8RH Beech A60 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 A60 · N8RH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

AFTON MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

350° / 3 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000P-208

Total time

544 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,712

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CAUGHT FIRE AFTER EVAC.REASON FOR FLUID LOSS UNDET

Investigator remarks

NO FLUID IN BRAKE RESERVOIR.ACFT HIT HANGAR AND

Cause factors

70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/38 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDRAULIC FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CM A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE,NONE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint 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 1870. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1870.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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