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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77FA002

1976-11-17 INDEPENDENCE, Kansas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57186 AERO COMDR 690A Fatal

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

AERO COMDR 690A · N57186

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000011186

Total time

1,219 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,000

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T 4MIN OF FLT.

Investigator remarks

ALTITUDE VARIED BETWEEN 14500FT & 15300F DRG LAS

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
88/J/DA J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN WING Joint cause
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 3 3856. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3856.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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