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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FKG94

1976-08-05 ROCHELLE, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4710C Boeing B-17G Minor

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

BOEING B-17G · N4710C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DL

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000077246

Total time

7,115 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,205

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FIRE STARTED AT OR NEAR CARB.

Investigator remarks

FIRE ANT CONTROL. ACFT BURNED AFTER EMERG LNDG.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint cause
88/J/AC J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN Joint 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 2520. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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