NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA80FKT56
Registry · N354D
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH S35
Year of manufacture
1964 · 16 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19641019
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A3F3F4
Registrant of record
AIR REPAIR INC
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 60 · N354D
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D0
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
FT LAUDERDALE EXE
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000P34
Total time
1,500 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,826
Age
47
Cause factors
- 74/C/KA C POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
- 88/L/48 L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
- 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 2258.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_2258.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- NASA NTRS 2024 · Conference Paper
Al6061-RAM2 Development and Hot-Fire Testing using Additive Manufacturing Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition for Liquid Rocket Engine Channel-Cooled Nozzles
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- NASA NTRS 2024 · Presentation
Al6061-RAM2 Development and Hot-Fire Testing using Additive Manufacturing Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition for Liquid Rocket Engine Channel-Cooled Nozzles
Aluminum 6061-RAM2 is a high-strength aluminum feedstock developed for additive manufacturing (AM)processes. This alloy leverages Reactive Additive Manufacturing (RAM) technology.
- arXiv 2022 · arXiv preprint
Zero Touch Coordinated UAV Network Formation for 360° Views of a Moving Ground Target in Remote VR Applications
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- NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports 2022 · Accident report
Loss of Control on Takeoff in Icing Conditions — Citation 560XL
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Technical Memorandum (TM)
Fidelity assessment of a UH-60A simulation on the NASA Ames vertical motion simulator
Helicopter handling qualities research requires that a ground-based simulation be a high-fidelity representation of the actual helicopter, especially over the frequency range of the investigation.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Other
Differential Pressures on a Pitot-venturi and a Pitot-static Nozzle over 360 Degrees Pitch and Yaw
Measurements of the differential pressures on two navy air-speed nozzles, consisting of a Zahm type Pitot-Venturi tube and a SQ-16 two-pronged Pitot-static tube, in a tunnel air stream of fixed speed …
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