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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DKJ16

1981-08-24 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8966P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-260

Year of manufacture

1966 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC5ED6

Registrant of record

LAUTENSACK PETER

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8966P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8966P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4423

Total time

3,695 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

507

Age

48

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2154. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2154.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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