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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77IA006

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

Registry · N500BJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES 1124

Year of manufacture

1978

Engine

GARRETT TFE731 SERIES

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63A12

Registrant of record

AIR METRO LEASING INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N500BJ Mitsubishi MU-2K 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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