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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DLA30

1976-01-24 QUINCY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1107S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26E

Year of manufacture

1971 · 5 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19710525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02F91

Registrant of record

SUGARBUSH SOARING ASSOCIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1107S Schweizer SGS126 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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N1107S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

QUINCY MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000507

Total time

601 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

403

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

0 ARPT.

Investigator remarks

PLT DESCENDED LOW IN SPIN.GLIDER UNABLE RETURN T

Cause factors

64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0087. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0087.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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