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FTW78FPG73

1978-08-06 · N.LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
DYKE DELTA JD-2 · N443B
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
NORTH LITTLE ROCK
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000001129
Total time
44 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
5,000
Age
55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

VELOPED FATIGUE CRACK.

Investigator remarks

FORWARD BOTTOM PORTION OF LANDING GEAR HANDLE DE

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CM A
    AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1782. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1782.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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