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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DRA01

1980-10-12 BEAUMONT, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2WD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION B

Year of manufacture

1950 · 30 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560416

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18F49

Registrant of record

BRANTLEY SCOTT R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2WD Navion B 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

NAVION B · N2WD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000NAV42153B

Total time

2,506 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

883

Age

53

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 2969. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2969.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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