Atlas / NTSB / MIA76FKG96

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FKG96

1976-08-17 CORDELE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3701G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B-17G

Year of manufacture

1944 · 32 years old at event

Engine

WRIGHT R-1820-97 (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

36 seats · 4 engines

Last airworthiness date

20110614

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4364D

Registrant of record

FORTRESS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3701G Boeing B-17G 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

BOEING B-17G · N3701G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

045° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-8543A

Total time

5,546 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,100

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SONS UNDETERMINED.ACFT APPLYING FIRE ANT CONTROL

Investigator remarks

LT FWD LOWER SPAR CAP P/N753424-2 FAILED FOR REA

Cause factors

70/A/AA A
AIRFRAME SPARS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3899. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3899.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.