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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DLA26

1981-05-20 PERRY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6117R Cessna 172RG 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 172RG · N6117R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PERRY-FOLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000172RG0087

Total time

968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

536

Age

44

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1485. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1485.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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