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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0565

1964-02-14 BECKLEY, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9711A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182N

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691203

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD89D8

Registrant of record

JONES STANLEY A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9711A Cessna 170A 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 170A · N9711A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

B (B)

Total hours

224

Age

51

Investigator remarks

O RING SEAL IN BRAKE FAILED

Cause factors

68/C/D1 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) 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 0358. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0358.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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