Event MIA74AM062

1974-01-21 MELBOURNE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5296S Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5296S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002826944

Total time

2,979 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AN.1 GR FOUND ACFT NOT RCVRD.INJURY,DMG PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STOLEN SAME COLOR ACFT OBSVD CRASH INTO OCE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 0119. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0119.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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