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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FJA01

1977-12-17 HONOLULU, Hawaii, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2874G Beech C45G Minor

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

BEECH C45G · N2874G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

E

Airport

HONOLULU INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 12 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000AF168

Total time

4,015 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,984

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FAILED OVER WATER SHORT OF ARPT.LNDD ON REEF.

Investigator remarks

L PROP GOV DRIVE GRS FAILED.R ENG,OP AT FULL PWR

Cause factors

74/C/FG C
POWERPLANT GOVERNORS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
82/K/H K
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint factor
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 3857. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3857.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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