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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78DRG45

1978-06-01 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9144Y Piper PA-31 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-31 · N9144Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

INTERNATIONAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000031-192

Total time

9,585 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,210

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

CIRCUMNAVIGATED RAIN & TSTMS ENROUTE OVER MEXICO

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION
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 1019. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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