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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82FEM02

1981-11-13 LANSING, Michigan, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N20M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH-PARKS BEECH-PARKS D-45

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19860513

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A190BD

Registrant of record

LONG DAVID M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N20M Beech T-34 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 T-34 · N20M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

L

Airport

CAPITAL CITY

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AF53-4113

Total time

4,408 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,309

Age

28

Investigator remarks

FUEL GAUGE INACCURATE.

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
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 2780. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2780.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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