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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTM28

1980-07-03 OURAY, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N85876 Cessna T337D 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

CESSNA T337D · N85876

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

96° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000T3371006

Total time

2,576 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

450

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

B OUT.D/A APRX 8600FT.FNT ENG FUEL SEL,EMPTY TNK.

Investigator remarks

AFTER FOOD DROP IN CANYON,FNT ENG LOST PWR.UN CL

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/K/W K
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint factor
88/K/20 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FLEW INTO BLIND CANYON 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 1921. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1921.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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