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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FGM30

1974-05-15 WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania, United States None 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

NAVION D · N96Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ALLEGHENY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00NAV-4-328D

Total time

2,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,700

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BRATION ON LDG,GO-AROUND.NEXT LDG HARD.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT WHEEL INBOARD FLANGE SEPARATED INFLIGHT,VI

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/J/CF J
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Joint cause
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 1464. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1464.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.