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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66F0157

1965-10-06 PASCO, Washington, 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

CESSNA 310C · N6675B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PASCO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 5 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,539 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,000

Age

43

Investigator remarks

RIGHT MAIN GEAR OLEO STRUT FAILED

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CA A
    AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 3496. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3496.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.