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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0598

1966-03-20 FRIENDLY, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2754C Cessna 170B 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

CESSNA 170B · N2754C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

P G AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,913 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

728

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MAGE.RIGHT BRAKE PEDAL SHAFT FAILED

Investigator remarks

PARKED AIRCRAFT CESSNA 150 N2522J SUBSTANTIAL DA

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3 0718. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0718.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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