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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DA115

1978-08-07 NGREAT INAGUA, Atlantic Ocean, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N669SA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROPILOT S R O L 600

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

ROTAX 912 IS (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240112

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8D739

Registrant of record

GOOD MICHAEL P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N669SA AERO COMDR 680F 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 COMDR 680F · N669SA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

00001667-131

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,800

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D.ACFT DMG & INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD ENG ON FIRE & DITCHING.ACFT NOT LOCATE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 3225. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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