Atlas / NTSB / MIA79FLD81

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FLD81

1979-07-21 FORT PIERCE, Florida, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N27673 Taylorcraft BL-65 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

TAYLORCRAFT BL-65 · N27673

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PVT STRIP

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

168° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000027673

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

40

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E STRIP 1ST TIME W/O INSTRUCTOR ABOARD.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30KTS.STU PLT ATMPTD LNDG AT HOM

Cause factors

64/A/02 A
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1674. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1674.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.