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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DLE05

1980-09-28 SARASOTA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1LP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1965 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650810

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0010A

Registrant of record

PARKER HAROLD R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1LP Pitts S-1C None

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

PITTS S-1C · N1LP

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HIDDEN RIVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

125° / 8 kt

Temp

93° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001001

Total time

33 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,640

Age

50

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
80/K/BF K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 2427. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2427.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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