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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA74AZ013

1973-12-15 MIAMI, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6917C Lockheed 1049H Fatal

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

LOCKHEED 1049H · N6917C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Y

Airport

MIAMI INTL

Kind of flying

CU

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004815

Total time

28,905 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

11,550

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COMMAND,NEAR THE STALL REGIME.

Investigator remarks

OVERROTATED AT LIFT-OFF,FLOWN IN AREA OF REVERSE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/E3 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION/TRAINING OF RAMP CREWS Joint cause
88/J/60 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARGO SHIFTED Joint cause
88/J/05 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR 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 3313. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3313.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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