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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FKJ07

1979-10-28 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6638X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210A

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8C2E4

Registrant of record

SIPPLE PAUL K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 210 · N6638X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BIRMINGHAM MUNI.

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021057638

Total time

2,822 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

168

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-FUEL EXHAUSTION FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Investigator remarks

INSUFFICIENT ALT FOR EMERG GR EXT.

Cause factors

  • 84/C/J C
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause

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 3716. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3716.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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