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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FKW17

1970-10-26 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 210D · N3852Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

LOVELL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058352

Total time

1,893 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

503

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

YD FLUID OVERBOARD. GR WOULDNT EXTEND.

Investigator remarks

PISTON GLAND OF EMERG HAND PUMP FAILED. PUMPED H

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
  • 75/A/BF A
    SYSTEMS SEALS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BL A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DETERIORATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CM A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE,NONE 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 3 4103. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4103.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.