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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FLA24

1977-04-01 TALLAHASSEE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2363B AERO COMDR 520 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

AERO COMDR 520 · N2363B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

TALLAHASSEE MUNI

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 13 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000520148

Total time

5,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,500

Age

53

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
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 2016. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2016.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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