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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77IA042

1977-05-25 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

BOEING 727 · N8832E

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

C0

Airport

NATIONAL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

040° / 5 kt

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000020151

Total time

22,082 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,214

Age

46

Investigator remarks

ENG FAILED DRG ROTATION.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/N1 C
    POWERPLANT CASING-INNER Cause
  • 74/C/PD C
    POWERPLANT VANES,GUIDE Cause
  • 80/K/BA K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint factor
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor

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 4 0014. Source file NTSB_1977_4_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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