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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FIJ15

1975-03-02 JONESVILLE, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N321AJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT FALCON 900 EX

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

ALLIEDSIGN TFE731-60

Seats / Engines

21 seats · 3 engines

Last airworthiness date

20010129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A37210

Registrant of record

M HIXSON AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N321AJ AERO COMDR 200D Serious

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 200D · N321AJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000305

Total time

1,347 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,881

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S RQRD BY AD.

Investigator remarks

AD 72-25-7 NOT C/W.PROP BLADES NOT SHOT PEENED A

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 1096. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1096.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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