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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75AM056

1975-02-11 OCALA, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6153F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22

TCDS

H10WE · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A80418

Registrant of record

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC T/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

CESSNA A150L · N6153F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JIM TAYLOR FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000A1500430

Total time

528 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

183

Age

33

Investigator remarks

FOG MOVED INTO ARPT AREA AFTER PLT MADE TAKEOFF.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/02 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 0866. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0866.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.