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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82FEC03

1981-10-13 TROY, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N484B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS B4-PC11

Year of manufacture

1974 · 7 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5F78E

Registrant of record

ODONNELL DANIEL V

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N484B Beech A-35 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

BEECH A-35 · N484B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BIG BEAVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

080° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001504

Total time

4,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

689

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UX,HAND PUMP NOT USED.

Investigator remarks

CARBON-LIKE SUBSTANCE FOUND IN ENG-DRIVEN PUMP.A

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS 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
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 2782. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2782.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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