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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DLD38

1981-05-10 MERRITT ISLAND, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2496C Piper PA-38 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-38 · N2496C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MERRITT ISLAND

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-79A0206

Total time

1,346 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

718

Age

21

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
66/B/25 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT

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 1056. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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