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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FKT88

1981-08-15 TAVERNIER, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11481

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WACO QCF

Year of manufacture

1931 · 50 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR R670-SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19980128

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03E99

Registrant of record

BRANIN AIR SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11481 Lake LA-4 Minor

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

LAKE LA-4 · N11481

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

TAVERNIER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000310

Total time

641 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,386

Age

45

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 2147. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2147.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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