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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77DLA20

1977-03-19 LAKE CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N15033

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1972 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&GO-145C SER (75 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720821

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0CD0C

Registrant of record

FCA FLIGHT TRAINING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N15033 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N15033

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

LAKE CITY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

250° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000287225556

Total time

2,320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

39

Age

19

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2556. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2556.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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