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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0699

1964-02-26 MITCHELLVILLE, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SMITH AEROSTAR 600

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19690315

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A001AB

Registrant of record

HALL GEORGE E JR

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

BEECHCRAFT SUPERV · N1T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,000

Age

38

Investigator remarks

NOSEWHEEL STRUT DEFLATED.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 70/J/CE J
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES 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 0468. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0468.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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