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MIA76AM081

1976-05-03 · HILTON HEAD IS, South Carolina, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N4CP has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GVIII-G800, built 2025), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GRUMMAN G-1159 · N4CP
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
B1
Operator type
Business
Airport
HILTON HEAD
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
280° / 12 kt
Temp
82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000000-071
Total time
4,831 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
13,930
Age
49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SONNEL ATMTD WARN PLT WHILE LINEMAN PARKED ACFT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT.TAIL CONTACTED 7200 VOLT POWER LINE.OTR PER

Cause factors

  • 68/C/K1 C
    PERSONNEL GROUND SIGNALMAN Cause
  • 68/C/H1 C
    PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Cause
  • 80/C/BY C
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Cause
  • 88/B/52 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN BRAKES,WHEEL ASSEMBLY,WHEEL WELL

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2020. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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