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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77DKT57

1977-03-31 POMPANO BEACH, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6094D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18A 150

Year of manufacture

1958 · 19 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7EB96

Registrant of record

VAN WAGNER AERIAL MEDIA LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6094D Piper PA18 None

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 PA18 · N6094D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Y

Kind of flying

CF

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 15 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-5461

Total time

6,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,132

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENOUGH DURING AERIAL ADVERTISING BANNER FLT.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED HE DID NOT CHANGE FUEL SELECTOR SOON

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/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 1927. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1927.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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