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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FRG56

1977-06-25 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6PT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROTEK PITTS S-2A

Year of manufacture

1973 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740503

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C3E4

Registrant of record

STRANGE JIM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6PT Pitts S-2A 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

PITTS S-2A · N6PT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002066

Total time

470 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

893

Age

35

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 1568. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1568.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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