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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76AM093

1976-04-26 RUTLAND, Vermont, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 310 · N7696Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RUTLAND STATE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310Q-0475

Total time

1,006 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,000

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON 4/28/76 NR CREST OF MTN 5 MI EAST OF RUT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT MISSING AFTER MISSED INSTRUMENT APRCH.FOUND

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
  • 88/J/62 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE 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 1423. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1423.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.