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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FPM10

1978-05-26 TULSA, Oklahoma, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5BT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 32 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580508

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63569

Registrant of record

JOSEPH KENNETH DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5BT GLOBE SWIFT GC-1B Serious

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

GLOBE SWIFT GC-1B · N5BT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

RIVERSIDE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

170° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002081

Total time

1,875 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,210

Age

47

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 3281. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3281.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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