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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DKJ02

1980-10-14 DESTIN, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N811LE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-30

Year of manufacture

1966 · 14 years old at event

TCDS

A1EA · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19660808

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0E12

Registrant of record

SMITH COLIN B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N811LE Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N811LE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DESTIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000030-1224

Total time

2,962 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,150

Age

38

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AL J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED 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 3 3406. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3406.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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