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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69D0046

1968-07-06 HOMESTEAD, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4133 Mooney M-18C 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

MOONEY M-18C · N4133

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOMESTEAD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Total time

304 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

74

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NGINE FIRE UNKNOWN.

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN SWAMP.INTENTIONAL GR UP LDG.CAUSE OF E

Cause factors

88/C/51 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Cause
84/C/E C
MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT 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 2217. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2217.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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