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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKT19

1971-09-18 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3267H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415-C

Year of manufacture

1946 · 25 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A387EF

Registrant of record

ZEMAITIS RICHARD A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3267H ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N3267H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003892

Total time

1,905 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

36

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
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 3806. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3806.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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