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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FQD19

1978-04-13 DEMING, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N86505 Cessna T337E 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

CESSNA T337E · N86505

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000033701211

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

709

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,R MAIN UNDET AMT,FT SEL ON L AUX,REAR ON R AUX.

Investigator remarks

L MAIN FUEL TANK FULL,L AUX EMPTY,R AUX EST 5GAL

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/10 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR

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 1390. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1390.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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