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Event IAD78FID17

1978-07-29 LANGLEY AFB, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3673F N AMERICAN SNJ-5 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

N AMERICAN SNJ-5 · N3673F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LANGLEY AFB

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000090907

Total time

4,406 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,536

Age

59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EQUIPMENT INSTALLED.

Investigator remarks

BARRIER RIGGED FOR OPPOSITE RWY.ACFT HAD NO COMM

Cause factors

68/A/H3 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER OPERATION OF FACILITIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/A/BE A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/01 J
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT 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 2616. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2616.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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