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MIA77FKT24

1977-02-28 · PALM BEACH, Florida, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N282MA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT 8KCAB, built 2004), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MITSUBISHI MU-2K · N282MA
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
PALM BEACH INTL
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000262
Total time
1,155 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
25,000
Age
63

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0547. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0547.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.