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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DKT65

1974-03-26 MIAMI, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55959

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A72403

Registrant of record

JOHNSON LAWRENCE F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N55959 Stearman A75 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

STEARMAN A75 · N55959

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

B AND L STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000075-44-76

Total time

10,214 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,500

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HE CAUSE OF THE LOCKED BRAKE COULD NOT BE DTRMND.

Investigator remarks

BRAKE LOCKED ON LNDG ROLL,FIRE DESTROYED BRAKE.T

Cause factors

70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/52 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN BRAKES,WHEEL ASSEMBLY,WHEEL WELL 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 0844. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0844.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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