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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77IA001

1976-10-01 SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62 N. AMERICAN NA-265 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

N. AMERICAN NA-265 · N62

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000380-31

Total time

699 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,206

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RCE OF FOD UNDETERMINED

Investigator remarks

FATIQUE FAILURE FIRST STAGE COMPRESSOR BLADE SOU

Cause factors

74/A/MF A
POWERPLANT BLADE,COMPRESSOR ROTOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/A/KC A
POWERPLANT FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE 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 0023. Source file NTSB_1976_5_0023.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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