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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74FKW12

1973-08-08 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1WF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35A

Year of manufacture

1968 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A001FC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1WF Beech 65-80 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

BEECH 65-80 · N1WF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

LOVELL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000LD84

Total time

4,599 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,000

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENCE OF BOLT BEING CHNGD.HIT CHUCK HOLE BFOR TKOF.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR ACTUATOR ASSY ATTACH BOLT FAILED.NO EVID

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Joint cause

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 2205. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2205.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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