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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77AA065

1977-09-08 SANFORD, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N999HG Learjet 25B 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

LEARJET 25B · N999HG

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

SANFORD-LEE CNTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000025B178

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,364

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S,FUEL LEAKAGE,OR BOTH,COULD HAVE BEEN PRESENT.

Investigator remarks

LOW ORDER EXPLOSIONS,AFT FUSELAGE.BATTERIES GASE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AC J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN 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 4205. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4205.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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