FTW72FPD04
1971-07-25 · CLEBURNE, Texas, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- VOLAIRCRAFT 10A · N6666D
- Damage
- Substantial
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- EB
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- CLEBURNE MUNI
- Kind of flying
- A3
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
Aircraft history
- Serial number
- 000000000026
- Total time
- 1,247 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Total hours
- 52
- Age
- 39
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
INDCN OF FIRING.WATER IN BOTTOM OF CARB FLOAT BOWL
Investigator remarks
NR4 CYL COMP BLO NORM.4 LWR PLUGS OIL FOULED,NO
Cause factors
- 68/C/D6 C PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
- 74/C/AE C POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
- 88/C/AN C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW COMPRESSION Cause
- 88/C/87 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
- 88/K/94 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
- 83/K/F K TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 2782.
Source file
NTSB_1971_3_2782.txt.
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