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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRA33

1971-01-11 PEARLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2426M Piper PA-12 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-12 · N2426M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLOVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000012-1649

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

410

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LLED WITH FUEL,PREVENTED THE TANK FROM VENTING.

Investigator remarks

TWO LOW POINTS FOUND IN BUBBLE TANK VENT LINE,FI

Cause factors

74/C/CY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/AE C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER/INADEQUATE VENTING 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 0540. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0540.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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