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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DPD12

1981-02-15 DENTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4912M Piper PA-31P 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

PIPER PA-31P · N4912M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

DENTON MUNI

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 7 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

031P-7530020

Total time

1,153 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,338

Age

54

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/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 1275. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1275.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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