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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72IM097

1972-03-23 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3407

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN NA-64

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3C09B

Registrant of record

GLAVE WILLIAM C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3407 Convair 640 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 640 · N3407

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Z

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

SAN JUAN INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000020

Total time

41,219 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,518

Age

45

Investigator remarks

METAL CHIPS FOUND IN HYD FLUID.

Cause factors

70/C/CP C
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause

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 0046. Source file NTSB_1972_4_0046.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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