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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FKJ10

1976-12-16 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2172M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1963 · 13 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630322

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1D62D

Registrant of record

PACKER BRUCE P TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2172M Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N2172M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BIRMINGHAM MUNCPL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-3305

Total time

2,651 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

270

Age

38

Investigator remarks

LOOKING AT CHARTS,HIT BEECH TRAVEL AIR,N2753Y.

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 3717. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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