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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRJ52

1979-09-13 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N63804

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING PT-17

Year of manufacture

1941 · 38 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85DE9

Registrant of record

VAJDOS ROBERT C JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N63804 Boeing PT-17 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

BOEING PT-17 · N63804

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

NAYLOR

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000075-825

Total time

8,120 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

20,000

Age

56

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED.

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. 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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2193. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2193.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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