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Event FTW80FPD40

1980-08-05 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N17294

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8

Year of manufacture

2023

TCDS

A16WE · BOEING

Engine

CFM INTL LEAP-1B28 SER

Seats / Engines

175 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20230118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1244B

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N17294 Cessna 150L 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

CESSNA 150L · N17294

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 17 kt

Temp

101° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073707

Total time

5,232 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AND,RTRND W RMNG FUEL.WING HIT GND.

Investigator remarks

PLT UN TO BUY FUEL W CREDIT CARDS,LMTD CASH ON H

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

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 1621. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1621.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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