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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66A0028

1965-09-01 UTICA, New York, United States Minor 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

BAC 1-11 · N2111J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

16,500

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CAUSED STRUT TO JAM IN COMPRESSED POSITION.

Investigator remarks

INADEQUATELY MACHINED NOSE SHOCK STRUT CYLINDER

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CE A
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/BA J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Joint cause
  • 88/J/98 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Joint 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 1 0056. Source file NTSB_1965_1_0056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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