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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FLA17

1977-02-23 LAKE CITY, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1370P Piper PA-23 Serious

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-23 · N1370P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

LK CITY MUNI

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

23-419

Total time

2,220 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

468

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WATER & FOREIGN MATTER IN FUEL.LAST ANNUAL 9/73.

Investigator remarks

L ENG-MAGS IMPROPERLY TIMED,LO COMP 2 CYLINDERS,

Cause factors

68/C/D5 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 1542. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1542.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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