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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DA024

1980-01-04 ATLANTIC OCEAN, Atlantic Ocean, 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

BEECH C-50 · N3725B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CH-154

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT THE CREW.

Investigator remarks

DITCHED IN INTL WATERS.SURVIVORS CLAIM THEY WERE

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 0092. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0092.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.