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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUJ54

1981-04-29 WILLCOX, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N777BP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-1AP

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20180622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA832F

Registrant of record

IDEAVILLAGE PRODUCTS CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N777BP COUGAR 1 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

COUGAR 1 · N777BP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000JBP-1

Total time

160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

301

Age

40

Investigator remarks

FOUND FUEL STAINS FM AREA OF GASCOLATOR.

Cause factors

74/C/CE C
POWERPLANT FILTERS,STRAINERS,SCREENS Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2284. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2284.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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