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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FPM04

1980-11-26 TULSA, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N202GW 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 · N202GW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

10,519 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,400

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R NEST IN FUEL SYS VENT.AIR BLED INTO FUEL TNKS.

Investigator remarks

ENG BURNER CAN DRAIN VLV,PN 3006505,FAILED,DOBBE

Cause factors

74/A/N8 A
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/A/CJ A
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CF A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AE A
AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CW A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WARPED 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 3460. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3460.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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