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Event IAD78FA056

1978-03-31 SALISBURY, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N313UT AERO COMDR 500B 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 500B · N313UT

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

SLSBY-WICOMICO

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

280° / 5 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

500B-1183-93

Total time

6,080 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,600

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THROTTLE AT IDLE,CARB HT ON,CRASHED 1/2MI SHORT.

Investigator remarks

KEROSENE MIXED WITH 100LL.TURNING BACK TO ARPT,L

Cause factors

68/C/D2 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPERLY SERVICED AIRCRAFT (GROUND CREW) Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/37 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER Cause
68/L/E3 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION/TRAINING OF RAMP CREWS
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
88/L/07 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
64/L/20 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1312. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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