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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76FPD44

1976-06-03 MORAN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

AMER AVCO AA1 · N6233L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1-0433

Total time

728 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

97

Age

20

Investigator remarks

BECAME LOST.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
  • 64/L/03 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED

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 1616. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1616.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.