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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FKT43

1971-02-28 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11073

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1965 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650312

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02F9C

Registrant of record

WILLIAMS DARRELL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11073 Champion 7ECA 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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N11073

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000061

Total time

832 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

106

Age

35

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/C/81 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF 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 0882. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0882.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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