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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKT21

1971-09-20 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1899H Cessna 310C 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

CESSNA 310C · N1899H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035999

Total time

665 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,234

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HEN SUBJECTED TO HEAT.

Investigator remarks

INVEST DISCLOSED BREAKDOWN OF COILS ALL 4 MAGS W

Cause factors

74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
88/C/BZ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HIGH VOLTAGE BREAKDOWN Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3766. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3766.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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