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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRD37

1979-05-19 VENICE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N12NT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LANCAIR PROPJET

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

WALTER M601 SER (777 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05297

Registrant of record

NOVEMBER TANGO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N12NT Cessna 185A 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

CESSNA 185A · N12NT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

D

Airport

THE JUMP

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 8 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502678

Total time

860 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,780

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G ON LNDG RUN-OUT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT (W FLOATS)COLLIDED W BOAT,WHILE STILL MOVIN

Cause factors

64/A/80 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/13 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/62 J
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Joint cause
88/J/AQ J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1415. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1415.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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