Event MIA66I0083

1966-01-17 MOBILE, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9314 Convair CV-440 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

CONVAIR CV-440 · N9314

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

BATES FIELD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SSING.UNIT IN-SERVICE 11 HRS.SINCE OVERHAUL.

Investigator remarks

NOSEWHEEL STEERING VALVE LEFT SPRING-RETAINER MI

Cause factors

70/1/CP 1
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Subordinate · 1
68/1/D0 1
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Subordinate · 1

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 4 0004. Source file NTSB_1966_4_0004.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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