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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKQ10

1978-05-06 LAUREL, Mississippi, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N47488 Piper PA-34 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

PIPER PA-34 · N47488

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HESLER NOBLE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7770401

Total time

325 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

805

Age

27

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/C J
WEATHER FOG Joint cause

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 1123. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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