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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FLD80

1979-07-18 TAMPA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 310 · N777RJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TAMPA INTL

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033452

Total time

2,627 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,802

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELATED DOOR MECHANISMS.

Investigator remarks

SEVERAL LINKAGES & FITTINGS MISSING FM L M/G & R

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CM A
    AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2095. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2095.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.