NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA79FA077
Aircraft involved
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-31 · N6478L
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EJ
Operator type
Y
Airport
AMERICAN AGRO
Kind of flying
DY
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
220° / 4 kt
Temp
72° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000031-358
Total time
2,925 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,200
Age
28
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
AND CARGO.LOCAL GROUNG FOG.
Investigator remarks
PIC DID NOT POSSESS MEL RATING.NARCOTICS CONTRAB
Cause factors
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/17 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG 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 2864.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_2864.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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