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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FRG18

1974-09-07 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2357T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION G

Year of manufacture

1961 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A21E72

Registrant of record

B & R AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2357T Navion G Minor

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 G · N2357T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

NEW BRAUNFELS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

00NAV-4-2357

Total time

2,260 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,456

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LND IN PLOWED FLD.

Investigator remarks

ENG FUEL PUMP MALFUNCT. PLT DIDNT USE AUX PUMP.

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
64/C/19 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO USE OR INCORRECTLY USED MISC.EQUIPMENT Cause
88/C/CL C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE TOO LOW Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 2728. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2728.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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