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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FA058

1977-05-17 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7338 Grumman G-73 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

GRUMMAN G-73 · N7338

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

ISLA GRANDE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

060° / 15 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000J-38

Total time

12,754 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,780

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ACT WITH ENG IN OPN.OTR FIRE BOTTLE PREV REMOVED.

Investigator remarks

FUEL LEAK VICINITY ELECT BOOST PUMP.FIRE BOTTLE

Cause factors

74/A/CB A
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/51 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AJ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/20 J
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Joint cause
88/J/07 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Joint cause
68/J/D0 J
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 1806. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1806.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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