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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77DRG22

1977-01-01 LAREDO, 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

CESSNA 337 · N19F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0289

Total time

1,447 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

36

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 74/L/J2 L
    POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
  • 88/L/BR L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
  • 88/K/48 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Joint factor
  • 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 0055. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0055.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.