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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLD70

1980-07-30 MERRITT ISLAND, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8144V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A150M

Year of manufacture

1974 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19791114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1B30

Registrant of record

LUNDAHL FREDERICK B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8144V Cessna 150M 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

CESSNA 150M · N8144V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

MERRITT ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000A1500540

Total time

2,960 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

706

Age

49

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 1755. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1755.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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