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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FA015

1979-11-29 MELBOURNE, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8971L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8

Year of manufacture

2025

TCDS

A16WE · THE BOEING CO

Engine

CFM INTL LEAP-1B28 SER

Seats / Engines

175 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20250911

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC61DB

Registrant of record

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8971L AMER AVCO AA1-B Fatal

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

AMER AVCO AA1-B · N8971L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

340° / 6 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1B0421

Total time

2,095 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,940

Age

33

Cause factors

74/C/CC C
POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 3198. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3198.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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