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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FKT45

1977-05-23 POMPANO BEACH, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N54454 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 · N54454

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7425135

Total time

2,294 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,337

Age

34

Investigator remarks

LND ON ROAD & HIT POST

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/98 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 1313. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1313.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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