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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FKT36

1979-01-15 CLEWISTON, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N438G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A4M (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190715

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5416C

Registrant of record

CAREER PILOT TRAINING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N438G AERO COMDR 560E Serious

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

AERO COMDR 560E · N438G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000811

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,250

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN COCKPIT FROM UNDETERMINED ORIGIN.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH ROCKS,RIGHT GEAR SHEARED OFF.FIRE

Cause factors

84/C/E C
MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT Cause
88/C/50 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0191. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0191.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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