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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DLA43

1978-07-05 ST SIMONS ISLE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7AD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AGUSTA SPA A109E

Year of manufacture

2000

TCDS

H7EU · LEONARDO S P A

Engine

P&W CANADA PW206C (561 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20080115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94FE0

Registrant of record

EUROTEC VERTICAL FLIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7AD Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N7AD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MALCOLM-MCKINNON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000027-406

Total time

3,734 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

400

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IDING TUBE BOLT ATTACHMENT.

Investigator remarks

NOSE STRUT FORK CASTING BROKEN AT THE FORK TO SL

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2050. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2050.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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