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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2871

1964-07-17 CLEAR, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6815K Piper PA16 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

PIPER PA16 · N6815K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLEAR AFS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,214 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

233

Age

33

Investigator remarks

LEFT FRONT LANDING GEAR ATTACH FITTING 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/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D4 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 2101. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2101.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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