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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77FER46

1977-06-10 CANBY, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8784L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-25-235

Year of manufacture

1970 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-540-B2C5 (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20120605

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC16FD

Registrant of record

SIMMONS AVIATION SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8784L Piper PA-25 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 PA-25 · N8784L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-5267

Total time

1,936 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

728

Age

33

Investigator remarks

FUEL CELL BLADDER TORN.LNDD IN CORN FLD.

Cause factors

74/C/CA C
POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE 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 1638. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1638.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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