NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA80IA108
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
BEECH B99 · N99TH
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
E
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000000U-155
Total time
12,134 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
29
Age
47
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
LLED ON RT ENG.
Investigator remarks
FIRE ORIGINATED IN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM INSTA
Cause factors
- 75/A/EA A SYSTEMS TURBO-COMPRESSOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/95 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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
5 0028.
Source file
NTSB_1980_5_0028.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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