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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FLD23

1981-02-10 TAMPA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5474Q Cessna 150L 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

CESSNA 150L · N5474Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 20 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073374

Total time

6,173 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,670

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T PREV FORCED LNDG,MUDDY,DOZER TRACKS.HIT BUSH.

Investigator remarks

WND GSTG 30KTS.ATMTD TKOF FM 550FT CLRD STRIP AF

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/A J
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint cause
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0325. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0325.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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