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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FKJ61

1976-05-10 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101TT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NANCHANG CHINA CJ-6

Year of manufacture

1985

Engine

HOUSAI HS6A (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00A26

Registrant of record

GOWDY GREEN LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101TT Swearingen SA26AT 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

SWEARINGEN SA26AT · N101TT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

BIRMINGHAM MCPL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000101

Total time

2,092 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,591

Age

33

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED 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 1237. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1237.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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