NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA71AM053
Registry · N6170X
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
AIR TRACTOR INC AT-502B
Year of manufacture
1996
TCDS
A17SW · AIR TRACTOR INC
Engine
P&W PT6A SERIES (500 hp)
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19960508
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A80B2D
Registrant of record
WEST HILLS AVIATION INC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
AERO COMDR 500-A · N6170X
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B2
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Aircraft history
Serial number
500A-1032-42
Total time
2,147 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,235
Age
51
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
GS AND TAIL SEPARATED.
Investigator remarks
FLEW INTO AREA OF KNOWN TSTMS,SEVERE WEA. BOTH W
Cause factors
- 64/C/04 C PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
- 82/C/L C WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause
- 88/C/94 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
- 82/L/X L WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
- 88/L/49 L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
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 2579.
Source file
NTSB_1970_3_2579.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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