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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DRJ08

1975-08-21 MONROE, Louisiana, United States None 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

AERO COMDR 112 · N1041J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

L

Airport

MONROE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

152

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERG SYS TO LOWER GR.

Investigator remarks

PLT DISTRACTED BY PREV GR PROBLEM. HAD TO USE EM

Cause factors

  • 64/C/50 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/L/08 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT
  • 70/L/CB L
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2412. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2412.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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