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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74AM063

1974-01-28 MELBOURNE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5930J Cessna A150L 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 A150L · N5930J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 15 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000A1500230

Total time

2,059 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

98

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TED DRAGGED ACROSS WAVES WIND FILLED CHUTE-DROWNED

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSVD SPIN INTO OCEAN NOT RCVRD.PLT PARACHU

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/E1 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE GROUND TRAINING-PROCEDURES 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 0118. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0118.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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