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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FFD24

1970-12-19 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8855M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2010

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550 SER (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100816

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC337B

Registrant of record

HORIZON MARINE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEECH D95A · N8855M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TD-591

Total time

1,879 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

931

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLINE DUE TO CRACK OPENING IN CASTING.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR RETRACT ARM CASTING CRACKED.ARM JUMPED S

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 4423. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4423.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.