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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0354

1964-01-25 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States Minor 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 206 · N5014U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DB

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,000

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG GR-ROLL PIN HOLES IN SHIMMY DAMPNER ELONGATED.

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CE C
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0238. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0238.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.