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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0160

1964-10-06 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80855

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172M

Year of manufacture

1976

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB02BA

Registrant of record

BOWE JOSEPH E DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80855 SWIFT GC1B 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

SWIFT GC1B · N80855

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SALT LAKE CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

568 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

473

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PERSONNEL-RT BRAKE CLIPS MISSING.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT BRAKE LOCKED.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 3122. Source file NTSB_1964_3_3122.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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