NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA72AM087
Registry · N8087R
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH A36
Year of manufacture
1992
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19920724
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S AB02F2
Registrant of record
CAVANAUGH ROBERT K
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
BEECH D55 · N8087R
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
Part 121 (air carrier)
Kind of flying
A0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000TE-723
Total time
1,073 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
2,001
Age
23
Investigator remarks
FLIGHT PHASE UNKNOWN.
Cause factors
- 66/A/16 A DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/30 A PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 0067.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_0067.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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