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IAD77IA006

1976-10-16 · CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N500BJ has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES 1124, built 1978), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MITSUBISHI MU-2K · N500BJ
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000272
Total time
1,067 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,600
Age
47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

3RD STAGE TURBINE DMGD WING,ENG COWL & FUSELAGE.

Investigator remarks

V SEAL INSTALLED IN WRONG LOCATION.FRAGMENTS FM

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D0 C
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
  • 74/C/PG C
    POWERPLANT WHEEL TURBINE Cause
  • 74/C/PK C
    POWERPLANT SEALS,AIR-OIL Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 5 0020. Source file NTSB_1976_5_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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