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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRG53

1979-09-03 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N332K Beech 65-90 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 65-90 · N332K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

LAREDO INTL

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

030° / 10 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LJ-79

Total time

3,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,000

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 2541. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2541.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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