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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74FKT59

1974-03-01 HOMESTEAD, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1EW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION G

Year of manufacture

1962 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621003

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0007B

Registrant of record

NELSON PATRICK A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

BENSON B8M · N1EW

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOMESTEAD GENERAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Age

58

Investigator remarks

WOOD PROP BLADE FAILED AND HIT TAIL.

Cause factors

  • 74/A/FA A
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BM A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 0514. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0514.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.