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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRG01

1970-07-01 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N111GL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANKFER GARY GS-1 (GLASTAR)

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0308B

Registrant of record

LANKFER GARY M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N111GL Swearingen SA26AT 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

SWEARINGEN SA26AT · N111GL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

CLEAR SPRINGS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000T26-165

Total time

21 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,000

Age

42

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR TIRE FAILED,CAUSED NOSE GR FAILURE.

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1028. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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