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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FLA29

1977-05-06 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N54853 Cessna 337B 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

CESSNA 337B · N54853

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BAY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0585

Total time

1,643 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERENCE WI IMPROPERLY INSTALLED PARKING BRAKE CABLE

Investigator remarks

GEAR STOPPED IN INTERMEDIATE POSITION DUE INTERF

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CB A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BA A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING 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 1776. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1776.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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