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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77DRJ21

1977-08-26 COUSHATTA, Louisiana, United States Serious 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

MURRAYAIR MA-1 · N1020Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

STUART

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000021

Total time

586 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,930

Age

25

Cause factors

  • 83/A/F A
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 2198. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2198.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.