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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DLE06

1980-09-22 ORLANDO, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N66PC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LANCAIR IV P

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010629

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8B328

Registrant of record

HEINZLE HAMBLIN LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N66PC Cessna 421 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

CESSNA 421 · N66PC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

HERNDON

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

040° / 7 kt

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000421-0173

Total time

4,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OFF RUNWAY AFTER LANDING

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED DURING HIGH SPEED TURN

Cause factors

64/A/50 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3131. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3131.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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