Event IAD76II036

1975-11-25 NEW CASTLE, Delaware, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N80AC Grumman G-159 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

GRUMMAN G-159 · N80AC

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

GREATER WILMINGTO

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000153

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT RELEASE.

Investigator remarks

UPLOCK ATTACH NUT AND BOLT MISSING. UPLOCK WOULD

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CC A
AIRFRAME EMERGENCY/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 5 0045. Source file NTSB_1975_5_0045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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