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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA76AZ039

1976-09-26 HOT SPRINGS, Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N500J Grumman G-1159 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

GRUMMAN G-1159 · N500J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Business

Airport

INGALLS FIELD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

008° / 160 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000060

Total time

3,216 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

16,982

Age

54

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 4129. Source file NTSB_1976_3_4129.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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