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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FLD85

1980-08-06 MELBOURNE, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N95060 Piper PA-28 Minor

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 · N95060

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

MELBOURNE RGNL

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025792

Total time

5,833 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

186

Age

22

Investigator remarks

FUEL SEL FND PSND TO EMPTY TNK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 2079. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2079.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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