Atlas / NTSB / MIA69D0278

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69D0278

1968-11-22 MIAMI, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2788B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER 560-E

Year of manufacture

1957 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-480 SERIES (295 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19570729

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2C7A6

Registrant of record

K&L AGRI FARMS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2788B AERO COMDR 560-E Minor

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

AERO COMDR 560-E · N2788B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MIAMI

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,838 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

17,352

Age

49

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4160. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4160.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.