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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRA24

1979-05-19 MORGAN POINT, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7EH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVIAT INC PITTS S-2B

Year of manufacture

1994

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-540 SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19940728

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95048

Registrant of record

HALIMI TIMOTHY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7EH Pitts S1C 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

PITTS S1C · N7EH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

170° / 11 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

577 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

479

Age

30

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CA C
POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 1298. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1298.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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