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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FKM01

1979-10-07 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5854Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EUROCOPTER AS 350 B2

Year of manufacture

2002

TCDS

H9EU · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS

Engine

TURBOMECA ARRIEL 1D1 (712 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A78B77

Registrant of record

PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5854Z Piper PA-22 Serious

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-22 · N5854Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-9710

Total time

1,825 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

405

Age

50

Investigator remarks

TWO GALS USABLE FUEL FOUND IN R AUX TANK.

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/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 3417. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3417.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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