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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79DLA29

1979-05-29 ARCHER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9276C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-161

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACDB58

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9276C Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N9276C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FLYING TEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000031366

Total time

840 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

222

Age

23

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0976. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0976.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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