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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FA068

1977-07-16 FT LAUDERDALE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6892S AERO CMDR 680 Fatal

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

AERO CMDR 680 · N6892S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00680-419-93

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,405

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GE & PILOT NOT RECOVERED,INJURY PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

CRASHED IN AREA OF HVY TSTM ACTIVITY.MAIN WRECKA

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/X J
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 4101. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4101.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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