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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0001

1965-03-14 BRUNSWICK, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5866B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182A

Year of manufacture

1956 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A78F5E

Registrant of record

AIR-O-DROME AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5866B Cessna 182A 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

CESSNA 182A · N5866B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BRUNSWICK

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

285° / 5 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,431 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

915

Age

43

Investigator remarks

NOSE GEAR STRUT RETAINING COLLAR FAILED.

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES 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 3 1214. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1214.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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