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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FA102

1981-07-28 GROVELAND, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1028C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Year of manufacture

1941 · 40 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670-6A (220 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20251204

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00F95

Registrant of record

COURTNEY BRENT C

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

BEECH 65-B80 · N1028C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Z

Airport

NARROW ROAD

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LD-355

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

8,000

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BRUSH ON STRIP 12IN HIGH,SOFT SAND.

Investigator remarks

ISOLATED AREA W NARROW ROAD DOWN CENTER,WEEDS &

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/D J
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint cause
  • 83/J/K J
    TERRAIN SANDY 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 2189. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2189.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.