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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0354

1965-10-16 MIDLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4183B AERO CMDR 520 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

AERO CMDR 520 · N4183B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

MIDLAND

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 23 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,505 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

13,166

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AILED EXHAUSTING FLUID.

Investigator remarks

HYDRAULIC DOWN LOCK LINE FITTING P/N AN-823-4D F

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
75/C/BD C
SYSTEMS RESERVOIR,LINES,FITTINGS 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 3046. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3046.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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