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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DPJ36

1976-04-26 ELK CITY, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6630P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1960 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8C1C4

Registrant of record

SUMNERS TOBY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6630P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N6630P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1753

Total time

1,450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

230

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1728. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1728.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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