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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DLD14

1980-12-02 WINTER HAVEN, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N735EZ Cessna 182Q 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 182Q · N735EZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

GILBERT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018265378

Total time

1,518 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

486

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ES IN DIAM.EXTV SEARCH REVEALED NO DMGD OBJECTS.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W UNKN OBJECT IN FLT AT NGT,APRX 2 INCH

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3123. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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