Event IAD70II053

1970-03-26 DULLES INT APT, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8047U Douglas DC-8F 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

DOUGLAS DC-8F · N8047U

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Airport

DULLES INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LAND. DIVERTED TO DULLES AND LND OK.

Investigator remarks

R GR ACTUATING CYL PIN SHEARED ON T/O FROM CLEVE

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/55 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION 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 4 0019. Source file NTSB_1970_4_0019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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