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MIA78FKJ18

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

N77DC has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH A36, built 1985), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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