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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72FRA17

1971-10-14 LIBERTY, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N917RG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLIGHT DESIGN GENERAL AVN GMBH F2-LSA

Year of manufacture

2024

Engine

ROTAX 912IS2 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACB22A

Registrant of record

BIELSTEIN BRANDON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N917RG AERO COMDR 680T 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 COMDR 680T · N917RG

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

LIBERTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001576-30

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,636

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E WHEEL WELL.UN DTRMN CAUSE DUE IMPACT DMG.

Investigator remarks

DRG LDG ROLL NOSE WHEEL STRUT RETRACTED INTO NOS

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4085. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4085.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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