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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA065

1980-05-24 DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N300GR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LEARJET INC 45

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

HONEYWELL TFE731-40BR1B

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20190911

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31FF8

Registrant of record

BBFIRST 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

CONVAIR 240 · N300GR

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

SPRUCE CREEK

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 19 kt

Temp

91° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000115

Total time

26,740 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,300

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PROX 7353LBS OVR G/W FOR TKOF CONDITIONS.

Investigator remarks

CREW AWARE THAT OIL LINES WERE 15YRS OLD.ACFT AP

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 64/B/81 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF
  • 64/L/29 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
  • 88/L/76 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G.
  • 88/L/51 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE

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 2445. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2445.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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