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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA066

1980-06-04 OCALA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7651L Piper PA-31P 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

PIPER PA-31P · N7651L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Airport

OCALA MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

031P-7300125

Total time

2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OLEN ACFT AFT LNDG ALLOWING FIRE TO SPREAD.

Investigator remarks

OIL FILLER CAP NOT SECURED-L ENG.CREW FLED FM ST

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint cause
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 0801. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0801.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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