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Event FTW76AF058

1976-01-14 RECIFE, Atlantic Ocean, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N85 N. AMERICAN NA-265 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

N. AMERICAN NA-265 · N85

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Climb — initial (DA)

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000282-97

Total time

3,511 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,920

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-MADE NAVIGATIONAL ERROR

Investigator remarks

WROTE WRONG COURSE ON NAV CHART.INTL WATERS.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

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 2349. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2349.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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