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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0392

1965-12-20 PAHOKEE, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2308W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A23A

Year of manufacture

1965 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-346 SERIES (165 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20C05

Registrant of record

LACH JOHN J

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

BEECH A23 · N2308W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

P.BEACH CO.GLADES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

340° / 20 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

77 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

242

Age

38

Cause factors

  • 64/A/45 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 64/C/80 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2 1016. Source file NTSB_1965_2_1016.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.