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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77DLD27

1977-02-03 VENICE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

MAULE M5 · N362X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

VENICE MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

300° / 12 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000007003C

Total time

151 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

403

Age

43

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED LOCAL FOG CONDITION.

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/82 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 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 0742. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0742.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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