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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FKT28

1972-11-25 POMPANO BEACH, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8434M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-34-220T

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360-KB (220 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19810723

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB8DEE

Registrant of record

HENNING GEORGE C JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8434M Cessna A150K Serious

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 A150K · N8434M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000A15000134

Total time

894 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

103

Age

56

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN HOSP PARKING LOT.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 3681. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3681.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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