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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73AM084

1973-02-14 PERRY, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N84051 Cessna 172K Fatal

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 172K · N84051

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

PERRY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017258316

Total time

700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

195

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF BULLET FOUND IN PLTS HEART.

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF CTL FOR UNDET REASON.TSTM IN AREA.PIECE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 3078. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3078.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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