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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FET04

1978-11-04 MENTONE, Indiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N18062

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MONOCOUPE 90A

Year of manufacture

1938 · 40 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600826

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A143F1

Registrant of record

SLACK JONATHAN D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N18062 Monocoupe 90A Fatal

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

MONOCOUPE 90A · N18062

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

MENTONE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000A-770

Total time

1,388 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

500

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PRIOR TO FLIGHT.

Investigator remarks

FUEL STOLEN FROM AIRCRAFT AFTER LAST FUELING AND

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/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 4471. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4471.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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