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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76II040

1975-11-15 CHANTILLY, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4FA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310R

Year of manufacture

1976

TCDS

3A10 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19760624

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A86D

Registrant of record

OGBURN BENJAMIN R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4FA Piper PA-31 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

PIPER PA-31 · N4FA

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

DULLES INTL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0031-7405232

Total time

605 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

17,903

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INTERNALLY.

Investigator remarks

L FLAP TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY,P/N 489-380, FAILED

Cause factors

75/A/CI A
SYSTEMS WING FLAP CONTROL SYSTEM MECHANICAL Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL 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 5 0043. Source file NTSB_1975_5_0043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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