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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FVW13

1977-03-31 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N995S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA46-500TP

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

P&W PT6A SER (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADE6C6

Registrant of record

PMG-SR22T LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N995S Beech B55 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

BEECH B55 · N995S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

BOULDER CITY

Kind of flying

CT

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 12 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000TC-1346

Total time

1,640 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,080

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CLOSER AIRPORT FOR DESTINATION AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

WITH ENGINES RUNNING SPORADICALLY PLT PASSED UP

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 0491. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0491.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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