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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FTK09

1979-03-18 PIERRE, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8916P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HYLIO INC AG-116

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC4C43

Registrant of record

HYLIO INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8916P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8916P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

D

Airport

PIERRE MUN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

330° / 30 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4348

Total time

3,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,311

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CONTAMINATION AND WATER IN FUEL SYS.WND GUSTS 35KT

Investigator remarks

ENG FAILED ON IFR APPROACH.LDG IN ROUGH TERRAIN.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
82/K/H K
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1217. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1217.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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