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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72AF021

1971-10-11 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N514X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 750

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

ALLISON AE3007C SER

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19980929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67258

Registrant of record

NEWPORT SEA PINES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N514X Douglas DC-3C 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

DOUGLAS DC-3C · N514X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009380

Total time

12,991 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,000

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N RT CARB FAILED.CAUSED UNCONTROLLED NACELLE FIRE.

Investigator remarks

FUEL PRESS IND/OIL DILUTION RESTRICTOR FITTING O

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/51 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
88/L/AH L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE

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 3318. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3318.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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