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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77RA036

1977-03-03 NASSAU, Other Foreign, Bahamas Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5329M Swearingen SA226T Fatal

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

SWEARINGEN SA226T · N5329M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EK

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Wind

120° / 18 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000T243

Total time

1,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,200

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MENT OF THE BAHAMAS

Investigator remarks

INVESTIGATED UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GOVER

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 6 0008. Source file NTSB_1977_6_0008.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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