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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVA26

1977-04-15 TULARE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9965P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172S

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-L2A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADEC02

Registrant of record

AMERIFLYERS OF TEXAS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9965P Piper PA-36 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-36 · N9965P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

TULARE

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0036-7560076

Total time

847 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,200

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T PARTICLES.

Investigator remarks

FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLES PARTIALLY PLUGGED WITH DIR

Cause factors

74/A/CI A
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0581. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0581.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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