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MIA74DKT38

1973-11-17 · LANTANA, Florida, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CAMAIR 480 · N215
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
D
Airport
PALM BEACH CO
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000001-059
Total time
1,750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
IA (IA)
Total hours
8,200
Age
35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BFR RWY.PITOT OPENING 3/4 CLOSED DIRT,DOBBER MUD.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSVD FLYING SLO NOSE HI.T/D IN GRASS AREA

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
  • 75/L/JA L
    SYSTEMS PITOT SYSTEM
  • 84/L/G L
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3871. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3871.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.