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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0531

1966-04-15 PIERSON, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5385P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N5385P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

PIERSON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,186 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,800

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PHONED OUT, FUEL CELL PULLED LOOSE FROM STRUCTURE.

Investigator remarks

LEFT FUEL TANK CAP NOT PROPERLY SECURED, FUEL SY

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 0951. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0951.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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