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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DKJ19

1980-02-15 BRUCE, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5560X AERO COMDR 600S2R Minor

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

AERO COMDR 600S2R · N5560X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001760R

Total time

2,559 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,035

Age

32

Investigator remarks

NRS 6&7 CYL FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0993. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0993.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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