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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FLD43

1981-05-19 CLEARWATER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 152 · N49860

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000152-81364

Total time

1,448 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

180

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING FM 25FT AGL.AFT COL W WATER LNDD CLEARWATER.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED READJUSTING CAMERA WHEN LOOKED UP,DIV

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 0931. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0931.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.