NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MKC73AK031
Registry · N784TW
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-15F
Year of manufacture
1967 · 5 years old at event
Engine
P & W JT8D SERIES
Seats / Engines
116 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19770830
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S AAA120
Registrant of record
SIERRA AMERICAN CORP
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
BOEING 707 · N784TW
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Airport
LAMBERT
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Wind
190° / 7 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000018403
Total time
35,075 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
8,876
Age
41
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
AX INJ OCCURRED DURING EVAC.
Investigator remarks
NR 2 ENG CAUGHT FIRE,FUEL RET ELBOW SEPARATED. P
Cause factors
- 74/C/SE C POWERPLANT FUEL CONTROL Cause
- 88/C/BM C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
- 88/B/51 B MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
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 0038.
Source file
NTSB_1972_1_0038.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2019 · arXiv preprint
ALFA: A Dataset for UAV Fault and Anomaly Detection
We present a dataset of several fault types in control surfaces of a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for use in Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) and Anomaly Detection (AD) research.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper
Fatigue crack propagation in aluminum-lithium alloys
The principal mechanisms which govern the fatigue crack propagation resistance of aluminum-lithium alloys are investigated, with emphasis on their behavior in controlled gaseous and aqueous environmen…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2015 · Journal article (JAAER)
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