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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FLD74

1973-04-26 FOREST CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N942W SIAI-MARCHE S.205 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

SIAI-MARCHE S.205 · N942W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FOREST LAKE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000004-185

Total time

636 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,090

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SIGN.

Investigator remarks

CARB BOWL CONTAINED RUSTY WATER.R WING HIT ROAD

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 1440. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1440.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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