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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73AF012

1972-10-09 TALIHINA, Oklahoma, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8523H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI AGRAS T20P

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABB18F

Registrant of record

LANDMARK TURF SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8523H Navion A Fatal

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

NAVION A · N8523H

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001502

Total time

2,920 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

510

Age

40

Investigator remarks

UN RCVR FROM SPIN.RCVRD 9/17/72.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
74/L/CH L
POWERPLANT PUMPS
88/L/CB L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED
68/L/D6 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION

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 3520. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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