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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKJ94

1978-09-24 BROOKWOOD, Alabama, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9253

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON BROOKS GLASAIR SH-2R

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320-B1A (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19931117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACD37E

Registrant of record

GORMAN JOHN J III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9253 Enstrom F-28 Serious

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

ENSTROM F-28 · N9253

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000234

Total time

772 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

366

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T GENERAL AND NIGHT EXPERIENCE.

Investigator remarks

LANDING AREA DENSE WITH TREES.PILOT LACKED RECEN

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/02 A
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL 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 2807. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2807.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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