NTSB CAROL · Event
Event IAD78FLQ31
Aircraft involved
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
SMITH MINI · N846Z
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Airport
BOWMAN FIELD
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
190° / 2 kt
Temp
87° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000000GN-2
Total time
436 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,500
Age
46
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
WELD.
Investigator remarks
EXPERIMENTAL-AMATEUR BUILT ACFT.GR LEG FAILED AT
Cause factors
- 70/A/CA A AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 68/J/J2 J PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Joint cause
- 88/J/AG J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POOR WELD Joint cause
- 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
3 2014.
Source file
NTSB_1978_3_2014.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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