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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FA075

1979-04-21 TULSA, Oklahoma, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N189N Piper PA-20 Fatal

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-20 · N189N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HARVEY YOUNG

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

030° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000020-1090

Total time

416 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

621

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN LEVEL FLT.TRASH FOUND IN FLOAT BOWL.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SELECTOR ON RIGHT TANK,PLACARDED USE ONLY

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
68/L/D6 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION
88/L/64 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 0604. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0604.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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