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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA68A0024

1967-11-28 RALEIGH-DURHAM, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

VISCOUNT 745D · N7465

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

RALEIGH-DURHAM

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

23,066 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,862

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EF VALVE FAILED,CAUSED OSCILLATION.

Investigator remarks

VALVE BODY OF NOSE WHEEL STEERING JACK TWIN RELI

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CP A
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CV J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE 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 1 0058. Source file NTSB_1967_1_0058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.