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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78IA007

1977-10-24 MIAMI, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N123EM Beech D-18S 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-18S · N123EM

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

MIAMI INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

030° / 13 kt

Temp

83° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000A-70

Total time

10,146 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,200

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WIND CONDITION.

Investigator remarks

INTERMITTENT ENGINE IGNITION MALFUNCTION. CROSS

Cause factors

74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
88/C/BR C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 5 0020. Source file NTSB_1977_5_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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