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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77DKJ05

1976-10-13 MONTGOMERY, Alabama, United States None 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

BOEING 75 · N75869

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-5551

Total time

2,950 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,300

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GEAR.

Investigator remarks

OPERATING FRM PASTURE.WHEEL HIT HOLE COLLAPSING

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/B/E B
    TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4068. Source file NTSB_1976_3_4068.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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