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Event FTW81FQA27

1981-04-24 SANTA FE, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N474U 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 · N474U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

SANTA FE MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 4 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000T26-133

Total time

4,198 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,600

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DNT FAILURE.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED L BRAKE WOULD NOT RLS.FOUND NO PRE-AC

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) 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 3589. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3589.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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