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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLD67

1980-04-15 LUTZ, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N65123

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LC-40-550FG

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030626

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8932B

Registrant of record

MARTIN MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N65123 VOLKSPLANE VP-1 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

VOLKSPLANE VP-1 · N65123

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

N.TAMPA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 8 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000054

Total time

125 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

264

Age

28

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 1014. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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