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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75AI014

1974-09-20 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, 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

BRITISH AC 1-11 · N1548

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000042

Total time

24,637 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HE AISLE.

Investigator remarks

CHILD THROWN FM SEAT,FELL INJURING SHOULDER IN T

Cause factors

  • 82/A/L A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CZ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN ON 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 1 0026. Source file NTSB_1974_1_0026.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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