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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75DKT27

1974-11-10 OPA LOCKA, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6549L AMER AVCO AA-5 Minor

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

AMER AVCO AA-5 · N6549L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OPA LOCKA

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0349

Total time

239 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,243

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

SIM ENG FAILURE.PIC DELAYED ADDING PWR,HIT TREES

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
64/B/17 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 3614. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3614.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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