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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FKW28

1976-04-10 SPRINGFIELD, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8523L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIR TRACTOR INC AT-802A

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

P&W PT6A SERIES (500 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050308

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABB192

Registrant of record

TWIN CITIES AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8523L Piper PA-25 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-25 · N8523L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DN

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-4940

Total time

2,503 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,104

Age

24

Investigator remarks

TALL GRASS

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
68/L/J2 L
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1320. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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