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Event IAD76AI052

1976-01-21 ELKINS, West Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N91NR AERO COMDR 560A Fatal

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

AERO COMDR 560A · N91NR

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

H

Airport

ELKINS

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000234

Total time

9,277 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,096

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IVE METHOD FOR CKG FUEL.

Investigator remarks

FUEL GAUGE READ APRX 10 GAL HI.DID NOT USE POSIT

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/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
68/L/E4 L
PERSONNEL FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQ.DIRECTIVES,MANUAL,EQUIPMENT
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE

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 0654. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0654.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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