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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72DLT09

1971-10-13 BUENA VISTA, Tennessee, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7666V AERO COMDR A9B 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

AERO COMDR A9B · N7666V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001394

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,230

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NKS,RESTART ENG DUE LOW ALT.

Investigator remarks

PLT FLEW 13HRS DRG LAST 24HR PERIOD.UN SWITCH TA

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/L/62 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE

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 4082. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4082.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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