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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLD22

1979-12-20 TAMPA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N16EC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1965 · 14 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650803

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0EFBC

Registrant of record

SCHNELL MICHAEL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N16EC Piper PA-28 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-28 · N16EC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PETER O.KNIGHT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 4 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000282683

Total time

1,669 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,426

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N ENG RAN ROUGH.LNDD IN TURN AVOIDING OBSTRUCTIONS

Investigator remarks

LEANED MXTR DRG TKOF FOR MAX PWR,PULLED MXTR WHE

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
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 3686. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3686.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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