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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68F0107

1967-08-05 WARWICK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91140

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN NAVION

Year of manufacture

1951 · 16 years old at event

TCDS

A-782 · SIERRA HOTEL AERO INC

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19510507

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9D5F

Registrant of record

EQUINOX INSTRUCTION

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N91140 Navion A 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

NAVION A · N91140

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,076 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

175

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENT STRENGH. REPLACEMENT TIME UNKNOWN.

Investigator remarks

NOSE STRUT CYL SUPPORT BRACKET FAILED, INSUFFICI

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/98 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/31 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BOGUS PART 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 3 2628. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2628.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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