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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DLD07

1976-10-24 WINTER HAVEN, Florida, United States Minor 1 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

BOWERS NRI · N3335

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GILBERT FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

401 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

56

Age

28

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/C/80 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 64/L/31 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 3785. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3785.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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