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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FA029

1980-12-22 VENICE, Florida, United States Fatal 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

CESSNA 172N · N5093G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

VENICE MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

350° / 6 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017273542

Total time

193 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

123

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

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 3679. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3679.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.