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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FKT29

1981-03-01 FT.LAUDERDALE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N440R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C24R

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19841218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54C14

Registrant of record

MANN ROBERT F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N440R Beech 65-88 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

BEECH 65-88 · N440R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LP-22

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,250

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ITION.

Investigator remarks

ENG NOT FEATHERED & R ENG FUEL SEL FD IN OFF POS

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/C/07 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0936. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0936.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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