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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77DLA06

1976-11-17 LAKE CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N593RT Piper PA-24 None

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

PIPER PA-24 · N593RT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKE CITY MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003401

Total time

3,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,920

Age

47

Investigator remarks

DSCNDD BELOW MDA.

Cause factors

64/A/26 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/A J
WEATHER LOW CEILING 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 4062. Source file NTSB_1976_3_4062.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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