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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FLD25

1981-02-17 CLEARWATER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9094Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 58

Year of manufacture

1970 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19701002

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC938E

Registrant of record

AHRENS NATHAN

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 58 · N9094Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

ST PETERSBURG

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 6 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TH107

Total time

3,304 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

802

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T5ECH,BINDING.PUSH PULL ROD ASSY FAILED.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GEAR PUSH PULL FRONT ROD END BEARING,PN ARH

Cause factors

  • 68/A/D6 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BA A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0326. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0326.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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