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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76AM007

1975-07-11 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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 500B · N181Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00001310-122

Total time

4,688 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,535

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENGINE HEARD.NOT EQPD WITH FLT CTL BOB-WT SYSTEM.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSVD TO PITCH UP AND SPIN.ROUGH OR SURGING

Cause factors

74/C/CI C
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
66/B/23 B
DUAL STUDENT
66/B/16 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 2635. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2635.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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