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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FKW03

1972-07-08 SPRINGFIELD, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3792Q Beech 56TC 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

BEECH 56TC · N3792Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SPRINGFIELD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000TG-6

Total time

1,405 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,057

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OWN LOCK TO SAFE POSITION.

Investigator remarks

BENT PUSH PULL ROD RESTRICTED FULL MOVEMENT OF D

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AZ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BENT 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 3847. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3847.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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