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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FFA34

1972-03-07 UTICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6854Q Beech 95-B55 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 95-B55 · N6854Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 14 kt

Temp

31° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TC676

Total time

8,667 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

18,900

Age

58

Investigator remarks

LFT LDG GR ACTUATOR ROD BROKEN IN TWO PLACES.

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 0626. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0626.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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