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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FLT11

1978-09-08 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N60768

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206F

TCDS

A4CE · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7E48B

Registrant of record

MCGEE JACOB QUINTON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N60768 Cessna U206 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

CESSNA U206 · N60768

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GEN DEWITT SPAIN

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20602045

Total time

1,103 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

UNK PROSPECTIVE BUYER FLYING ACFT.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 2607. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2607.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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