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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77IA025

1976-12-27 BANGOR, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N473DA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR20

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360-ES (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070619

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5CC8B

Registrant of record

AEROSIM ACADEMY INC

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 727 · N473DA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Airport

BANGOR INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NCE OF TIRE SLIP OBSVD ON WHEEL RIM.

Investigator remarks

THE NR 2 BRAKE ASSEMBLY OVERHEATED ON TKOF.EVIDE

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CJ A
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CI A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/52 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN BRAKES,WHEEL ASSEMBLY,WHEEL WELL 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 4 0017. Source file NTSB_1976_4_0017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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