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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DLD52

1981-07-05 BROOKSVILLE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3842D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ENSTROM 280FX

TCDS

H1CE · ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP THE

Engine

LYCOMING HIO-360-F1AD (190 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A46CC8

Registrant of record

BEACON AVIATION FLIGHT SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 182 · N3842D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BROOKSVILLE

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 5 kt

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000034542

Total time

4,899 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

300

Age

27

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/82 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
  • 64/L/80 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1645. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1645.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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