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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FA041

1979-01-16 KENANSVILLE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N80W Beech D-18S 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

BEECH D-18S · N80W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000A-267

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

310

Age

36

Investigator remarks

UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ACFT,TRANSPORTING MARIJUANA.

Cause factors

64/C/52 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/26 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT

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 0275. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0275.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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