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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FA022

1977-01-06 FLINT, Michigan, United States Fatal 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

LEAR JET 23 · N332PC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

E

Airport

BISHOP

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

210° / 13 kt

Temp

22° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-056

Total time

6,726 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

18,320

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D FOR ILS BACK CUS 3NM SE OF MIDDLE MARKER.

Investigator remarks

PLT HAD LMTD RECENT JET EXPERIENCE. VECTORED,CLR

Cause factors

  • 64/A/82 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/J/G5 J
    PERSONNEL ISSUED IMPROPER OR CONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 3891. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3891.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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