NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA80FA022
Registry · N198B
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH 58
Year of manufacture
2000
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO-550-C (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20210205
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A185FC
Registrant of record
ARKLA AVIATION LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
BEECH E18S · N198B
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D0
Operator type
Business
Airport
HERNDON
Kind of flying
B2
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
360° / 4 kt
Temp
58° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000000BA138
Pilot
Certificate
Airline transport
Age
27
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/66 A PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING 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 3468.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_3468.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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