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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77DUJ55

1977-06-01 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8903C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC4818

Registrant of record

SUMMIT AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8903C Piper PA-28 Minor

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-28 · N8903C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000287690170

Total time

524 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,005

Age

55

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1258. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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