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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FLQ14

1980-02-29 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8574P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8574P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BLUEGRASS FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

040° / 10 kt

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4031

Total time

2,243 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,508

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-FUEL STARVATION FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Investigator remarks

10GALS IN SELECTED TANK,FUEL IN OTR TANKS.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
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 0619. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0619.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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