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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FA049

1977-04-01 AUGUSTA, Georgia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100SW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WILLIAM M CLAPP CLAPP-SABERWING

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

CORVAIR 100HP (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20191114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00659

Registrant of record

CLAPP WILLIAM M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100SW Mitsubishi MU-2B 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

MITSUBISHI MU-2B · N100SW

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000539

Total time

372 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

15,000

Age

43

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 1179. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1179.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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