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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA101

1980-09-14 OCALA, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N28109 Piper J3L-65 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 J3L-65 · N28109

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SILVER SPRINGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004584

Total time

4,751 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

55

Investigator remarks

AUTOMOTIVE GRADE FUEL.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/AR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS
88/L/37 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER
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 2665. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2665.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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