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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FKW04

1980-11-02 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3314C Beech E35 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

BEECH E35 · N3314C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

LOVELL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-3980

Total time

2,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

34

Age

33

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W BRUSH.FND FUEL SEL PSND TO EMPTY TNK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
84/L/8 L
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2867. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2867.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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