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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69D0260

1968-11-02 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N177T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELI CO 500-E

TCDS

H3WE · MD HELICOPTERS INC (MDHI)

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19951004

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A134D7

Registrant of record

ELLIS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N177T Piper PA-18 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

PIPER PA-18 · N177T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

J

Airport

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,107 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

149

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UT OF ACFT,ACCIDENTALLY HIT THROTTLE. HIT HANGAR.

Investigator remarks

LFT BRAKE FAILED,CAUSE NOT REPORTED.PLT JUMPED O

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CJ J
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) 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 4133. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4133.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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