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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FA013

1977-12-02 GEORGETOWN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3860G Cessna U206B 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

CESSNA U206B · N3860G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

GEORGETOWN MUNI

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206-0860

Total time

2,906 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,333

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T.

Investigator remarks

ENG OIL FILTER BOWL NOT PROPERLY SEATED ON GASKE

Cause factors

74/C/DI C
POWERPLANT SEALS AND GASKETS Cause
88/C/47 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM 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 3686. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3686.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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