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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL82FGM01

1981-10-05 NEW CUMBERLAND, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9314T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-38-112

Year of manufacture

1978 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780310

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACEC56

Registrant of record

GRIFFITH STEPHEN P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9314T Piper PA-38 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-38 · N9314T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HERRON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000078-A0024

Total time

28 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

107

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT DWN RWY AFT FORCED LNDG.FUEL SEL ON EMPTY TNK.

Investigator remarks

ENG BGN RUNNING INTERMITTENTLY,CAUGHT & ACLTD AC

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1876. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1876.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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