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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FKT40

1977-03-17 LABELLE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10MX

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

IAR SA BRASOV IAR 823

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20001208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00384

Registrant of record

CHIHUAHUA AIRPORT PARTNERS LP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10MX Douglas DC3A 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

DOUGLAS DC3A · N10MX

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002102

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ASTURE WITH 4000 LBS MARIJUANA ON BOARD

Investigator remarks

INJURIES PRESUMED.ABANDONED ACFT FOUND IN SOFT P

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN 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 0873. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0873.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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