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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DLG31

1978-08-06 LEXINGTON, South Carolina, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6676L Lake LA-4 Minor

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

LAKE LA-4 · N6676L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

110° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000439

Total time

250 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

178

Age

17

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED TKOF WITH FULL UP TRIM SETTING.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/56 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INCORRECT TRIM SETTING 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 3011. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3011.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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