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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA064

1980-05-14 PAHOKEE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40030

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE MXT-7-180A

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-C4F (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080815

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4AF7B

Registrant of record

CANTRELL JAMES E TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N40030 Piaggio P136L1 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

PIAGGIO P136L1 · N40030

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000221

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

25,000

Age

55

Investigator remarks

PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 162MG%.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/65 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause
88/C/67 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/L/02 L
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0978. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0978.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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