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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76AI033

1975-11-13 JEFFERSON CITY, Tennessee, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N69QJ Mitsubishi MU-2K 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

MITSUBISHI MU-2K · N69QJ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

MOORE MURRELL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

230° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000254

Total time

898 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,180

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TION AT IMPACT. L PROP 11-15 DEG,R PROP 3ODEG POS.

Investigator remarks

WRECKAGE PATTERN INDICATIVE OF ACFT IN LEFT ROTA

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/08 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS

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 4157. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4157.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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