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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA82FLD06

1981-11-05 MERRITT ISLAND, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6552C Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6552C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MERRITT ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

100° / 8 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7816434

Total time

1,106 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

163

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.7GAL FUEL IN R TNK.

Investigator remarks

ENG LOST PWR W FUEL SEL PSN TO R TNK.ESTIMATED 4

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 2928. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2928.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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