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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FLD43

1979-02-28 WINTER HAVEN, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3148P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210M

Year of manufacture

1977 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19920120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3592B

Registrant of record

SKY HI AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3148P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N3148P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

GILBERT FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

280° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000023-1079

Total time

4,366 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

504

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CRASHED IN MOBILE HOME PARK DAMAGING 3 RESIDENCES

Investigator remarks

PLT USED FULL CARB HEAT ON LEFT ENG FOR TAKEOFF-

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH 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 1669. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1669.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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