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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKJ18

1978-01-06 MOBILE, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77DC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1985

Engine

ALLISON 250 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19920214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA66FC

Registrant of record

OMEGA 377 PENNSYLVANIA LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77DC Beech D-55 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

BEECH D-55 · N77DC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

MOBILE AEROSPACE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Wind

160° / 5 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TE651

Total time

4,196 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,995

Age

34

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG

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 1089. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1089.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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