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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA82FKJ01

1981-10-29 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2589B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-38-112

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19781101

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A278CB

Registrant of record

OSTERMAN JEREMIAH E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2589B Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N2589B

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-79A0135

Total time

1,226 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,640

Age

50

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/J/E0 J
POWERPLANT COWLING Joint cause
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 5 0062. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0062.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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