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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FA036

1978-03-24 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N257A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GV-SP (G550)

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

ROLLS DEUT BR700-710C411

Seats / Engines

20 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20180115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2717F

Registrant of record

TVPX ARS INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N257A Beech G35 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

BEECH G35 · N257A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

N.PHILADELPHIA

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 11 kt

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D4809

Total time

3,934 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

450

Age

29

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/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0710. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0710.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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