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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81DLD63

1981-09-07 FT PIERCE, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

AERO COMDR 100 · N3891X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

FT PIERCE,FL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000196

Total time

1,113 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

123

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AND BAHAMA IS,CONTD TO FL.HIT GOAL POST,SCHOOL GND

Investigator remarks

DIVERTED TO AVOID WY,RDO/NAV INTMT,UN TO FIND GR

Cause factors

  • 64/C/03 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 64/B/15 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
  • 76/L/BA L
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES TRANSMITTERS AND/OR RECEIVERS
  • 76/L/BY L
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES OTHER
  • 88/L/BR L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
  • 82/L/X L
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY

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 3100. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3100.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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