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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76II075

1976-06-05 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8312C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8H4

Year of manufacture

2012

TCDS

A16WE · THE BOEING CO

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-7B27E

Seats / Engines

143 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20120622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB5EB2

Registrant of record

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8312C Piper PA-34 None

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

PIPER PA-34 · N8312C

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

WASH NATIONAL APT

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7670124

Total time

129 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,054

Age

28

Investigator remarks

DN LOCK LINK ASSEMBLY,P/N 56829-00,BROKE.

Cause factors

70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/D4 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 5 0007. Source file NTSB_1976_5_0007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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