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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78DER92

1978-09-09 JACOBSEN, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4CZ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P337H

Year of manufacture

1978 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19780407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A839

Registrant of record

ALVINES GOLDEN EAGLE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4CZ Cessna P337H 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

CESSNA P337H · N4CZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000310

Total time

122 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

402

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ASON FOR EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION WAS UNDETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

80 GALLONS FUEL ADDED 2HRS 40MIN PRIOR TO ACC.RE

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/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 2872. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2872.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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