Event MIA66I0121

1966-04-17 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5509 Lockheed L-188 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

LOCKHEED L-188 · N5509

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

17,021 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T PANEL.

Investigator remarks

LOOSE ELECTRICAL CONNECTION ON NO.39 RADIANT HEA

Cause factors

75/1/EY 1
SYSTEMS OTHER Subordinate · 1
88/1/33 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Subordinate · 1
88/1/AM 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ARCING Subordinate · 1
88/1/AV 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Subordinate · 1

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 0016. Source file NTSB_1966_4_0016.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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