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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKT38

1978-03-24 HOLLYWOOD, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N161U Beech C45G 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

BEECH C45G · N161U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000051-11889

Total time

4,136 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

10,797

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR WOULD NOT LOWER TO LOCKED POSITION

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
70/B/CY B
AIRFRAME OTHER
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 1105. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1105.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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