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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80IA103

1979-12-27 ST THOMAS, VI, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100SD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182C

Year of manufacture

1960 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600523

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00648

Registrant of record

DIVAN JEREMY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100SD Douglas DC3C 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

DOUGLAS DC3C · N100SD

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

HARRY S TRUMAN

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000012853

Total time

11,470 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

16,500

Age

51

Investigator remarks

NO.2 PROPELLER BLADE SEPARATED.

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/A/FA A
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/55 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION Joint 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 5 0045. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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