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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DA064

1981-04-02 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57154 AERO COMDR 690A 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 690A · N57154

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

ALBUQUERQUE INTL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

300° / 18 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000011154

Total time

2,021 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,107

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LED.RM GEAR PREVIOUSLY DMGD/REPAIRED.GUSTING 24K.

Investigator remarks

R MAIN GEAR,LH RETRACT CYL CLEVIS,PN ED12756,FAI

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/94 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1537. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1537.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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