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Event DEN82DA171

1982-08-22 BISMARCK, North Dakota, United States Airport · BIS None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3004B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 190

Year of manufacture

1952 · 30 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560510

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A32238

Registrant of record

DIRKSEN DANIEL L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

LEFT BRAKE FAILED. EXAMINATION REVEALED THE HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINE TO THE LEFT BRAKE HAD PULLED LOOSE FROM A UNION FITTING. THE LINE ALSO SHEARED BY THE SHIFTING OF THE GEAR BOX ASSEMBLY. THERE WERE SIGNS OF INADEQUATE FLARE TO THE TUBING IN THAT IT PULLED OUT OF THE "B" NUT & SLEEVE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1982_DEN82DA171.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket 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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