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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79DA029

1978-12-06 INTL WATERS, Atlantic Ocean, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N312EA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOMBARDIER INC BD-100-1A10

Year of manufacture

2023

TCDS

T00005NY · BOMBARDIER INC

Engine

HONEYWELL AS907-2-1A

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20230314

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A34EA4

Registrant of record

AEA SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LOCKHEED L1011 · N312EA

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000193M1019

Total time

13,966 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

27,200

Age

59

Cause factors

  • 82/A/L A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CZ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN ON 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 1 0020. Source file NTSB_1978_1_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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