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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FA106

1978-07-22 OPA LOCKA, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N157K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHEMPP-HIRTH DISCUS 2A

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110827

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E511

Registrant of record

SHELTON STEVEN D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N157K CURTISS C-46 Minor

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

CURTISS C-46 · N157K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Z

Airport

OPA LOCKA

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000436

Total time

23,815 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING ACCIDENT SITE.

Investigator remarks

INSTRUCTOR PILOT COULD NOT BE LOCATED AFT DEPART

Cause factors

74/A/KA A
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/48 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 2191. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2191.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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