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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FLD42

1979-02-25 ORLANDO, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7850X Cessna 172B 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

CESSNA 172B · N7850X

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017248350

Total time

1,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

127

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TH ENG RUNNING.PAX WALKED INTO PROPELLER.

Investigator remarks

PILOT LANDED ON LAKE,ALLOWED PAX TO EXIT ACFT WI

Cause factors

64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0448. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0448.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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