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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0320

1966-04-22 GILA BEND, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8580W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N8580W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

COSMOS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

552 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR BETWEEN TANKS JUST BEFORE TAKEOFF.

Investigator remarks

PILOT SAID HE BELIEVED HE POSITIONED FUEL SELECT

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/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1097. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1097.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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