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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FLA62

1976-08-11 QUINCY, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N99731 ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N99731

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

QUINCY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 7 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002354

Total time

2,979 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,500

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S. TOUCH AND GO PRACTICE AT DESTINATION.

Investigator remarks

100LL FUEL,LOW COMPRESSION ENG.STALLED INTO TREE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2514. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2514.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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