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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA017

1979-12-06 CLEARWATER, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9095P Piper PA-24 Fatal

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

PIPER PA-24 · N9095P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLEARWATER EXEC

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4571

Total time

2,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,500

Age

27

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W PWRLINE.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3388. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3388.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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