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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FGM07

1974-08-18 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N536D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D50E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-480 SERIES (295 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19621126

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6C702

Registrant of record

SHILOH AVIATION 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 D50E · N536D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ALLEGHENY CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000DH-338

Total time

5,430 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,520

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SURFACES ON 3 PIECES WERE DARK AND DISCOLORED.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY P/N 50-820107 ALL SIX

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
  • 88/J/27 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED ON FOAMED RUNWAY 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 2501. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2501.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.