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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79DKT19

1978-11-12 KEY WEST, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11771

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177B

Year of manufacture

1975 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19900417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0499B

Registrant of record

BOSS GARY W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11771 Cessna 177B 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

CESSNA 177B · N11771

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

KEY WEST INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017702366

Total time

934 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

172

Age

49

Investigator remarks

ACFT 1.7LBS LESS THAN MAX CERT GW.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING

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 4192. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4192.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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