NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA80FLD66
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
PIPER PA-32 · N7722J
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — level (EA)
Operator type
D
Airport
VANDENBERG
Kind of flying
DB
Weather at impact
Sky
BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED
Wind
200° / 14 kt
Temp
80° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000032-1124
Total time
1,793 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
998
Age
44
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
EANING,FIRE OBSD FM ENG COWLING,THEN ENG PWR LOSS.
Investigator remarks
DRG FLT AFTER STARTER RPLCMNT,PROP ADJMNT,ENG CL
Cause factors
- 84/C/I C MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause
- 88/L/AC L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN
- 88/L/51 L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
- 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 0998.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_0998.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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