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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DKJ54

1976-03-08 SYLACAUGA, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55WW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOLER-READ BREEZY RLU-1

Year of manufacture

1975 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6FF1B

Registrant of record

GEANTIL THOMAS G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N55WW BREEZY RLU-1 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

BREEZY RLU-1 · N55WW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SYLACAUGA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000002

Total time

114 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,662

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
68/C/J6 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
70/C/CE C
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0428. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0428.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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