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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRG02

1978-10-11 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N300G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G36

Year of manufacture

2013

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-B (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130309

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31FE8

Registrant of record

ONE GOLF TANGO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N300G Beech E18S 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

BEECH E18S · N300G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LAREDO INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 4 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA339

Total time

1,880 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

38

Investigator remarks

483LBS OVER MAX GROSS WT

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/76 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3588. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3588.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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