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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKT30

1978-02-01 MIAMI, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6468V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HELIO H-295

Year of manufacture

1970 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-480 SERIES (295 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990830

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A87F09

Registrant of record

GLASHEEN SEAN T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6468V HELIO ACFT H-295 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

HELIO ACFT H-295 · N6468V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

I

Airport

TAMIAMI

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001424

Total time

3,860 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,885

Age

38

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0911. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0911.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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