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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71DKT08

1970-10-12 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8788N Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N8788N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25628

Total time

1,014 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

27

Investigator remarks

TAILWIND 10K. SOLO X-C.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 3989. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3989.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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