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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0422

1965-11-17 OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N264RW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER 520

Year of manufacture

1952 · 13 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435C&D SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19550916

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A28F65

Registrant of record

DENEVE ANTOINETTE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N264RW 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 · N264RW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

WILL ROGERS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

110° / 6 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

6,790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

10,464

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LUBRICATION

Investigator remarks

RIGHT MAIN WHEEL AXLE FAILED BECAUSE OF LACK OF

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/C/49 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/80 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
88/L/27 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED ON FOAMED RUNWAY

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 3390. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3390.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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