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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK77X0108

1977-06-22 CORONA, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N50JE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-V

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

BMW ROLLS BR 700 SERIES

Seats / Engines

20 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19990226

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63864

Registrant of record

IN50JE LLC

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

CASSUTT SPORT · N50JE

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

CORONA

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000415

Total time

7 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,000

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOST CONTROL.FLIGHT LASTED THREE MINUTES.

Investigator remarks

HOMEBUILT,PLTS FIRST FLIGHT.OVERCONTROLLED THEN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/31 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 3 1332. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1332.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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