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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FTM07

1977-10-27 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6837Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1984

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19840124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A911B8

Registrant of record

SOUTH DELTA AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6837Q Beech B33 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 B33 · N6837Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SALT LAKE INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CD-768

Total time

1,872 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOUND IN BOTH MAIN TANKS.

Investigator remarks

NO REASON FOR ENGINE FAILURE WAS FOUND.FUEL WAS

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3584. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3584.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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