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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DLD11

1979-11-15 OCALA, Florida, United States Minor 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 182 · N52742

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OCALA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018262812

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G FOR GLASSES.

Investigator remarks

PLT CLAIMED DRIFTED OFF RWY CNTRLNE WHILE LOOKIN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 3639. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3639.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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