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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FNA24

1977-07-06 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6758T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310D

Year of manufacture

1960 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19600217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8F1CD

Registrant of record

GILL JAMES L JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6758T Cessna 310D 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

CESSNA 310D · N6758T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORWOOD MUNI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000039058

Total time

504 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,757

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CISSORS.WASHER CRACKED & SEPARATED FRM BOLT.

Investigator remarks

AN175-16 HAD PULLED THROUGH TORQUE LINK CENTER S

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. 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 2128. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2128.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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