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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FGM20

1978-02-23 INDIANA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1604R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 767-332

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

GE CF6-80 SERIES

Seats / Engines

330 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19990428

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F4A2

Registrant of record

DELTA AIR LINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1604R Grumman AA1-B 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

GRUMMAN AA1-B · N1604R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

INDIANA CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

23° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1B-0604

Total time

952 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L.L INDICATOR BELOW LOWEST LEVEL ON SIGHT GAGE.

Investigator remarks

RT FUEL QUANTITY INDICATOR BETWEEN 1/2 + 5/8 FUL

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/B B
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0526. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0526.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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