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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLA17

1980-03-15 N SMYRNA BEACH, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2302P AERO COMDR 680F 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

AERO COMDR 680F · N2302P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Z

Airport

NEW SMYRNA BEACH

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001547106

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED ACFT STRUCK UNK OBJECTS ON DEPT FM JAMAICA.

Investigator remarks

ACFT TRANSPORTING ILLEGAL DRUGS.CUSTOMS OFF STAT

Cause factors

64/C/54 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause
64/B/12 B
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY

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 1873. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1873.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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