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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FQG55

1971-02-07 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7039Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NANCHANG CHINA CHUJIAO 6

Year of manufacture

1964 · 7 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890825

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9635D

Registrant of record

SHALES GARY A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7039Y Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N7039Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000030-42

Total time

2,460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,500

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MIDWAY BTWN MAIN AND AUX POS.UN CLB PWR RDCD R ENG

Investigator remarks

L FUEL SELECT FOUND LODGED AGAINST RAISED SCREW

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
74/C/CC C
POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 0756. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0756.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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