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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLD68

1980-05-19 CLEARWATER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1370R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

OLIVER ROBERT W LEGEND

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

ROTAX 582SER (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0979A

Registrant of record

JOHNSON ROBERT E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1370R GRUM-AMER AA-5 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

GRUM-AMER AA-5 · N1370R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

CLEARWATER EXEC

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

150° / 10 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA5-0770

Total time

1,431 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

581

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OK.INT GND LOOP W R BRAKE TO AVOID ENTERING ST.

Investigator remarks

L BRAKE PRES PLATE/HOUSING FAILED DRG ABORTED TK

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1013. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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