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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG85

1979-07-21 SOLDOTNA, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5499T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GTEEX REVOLUTION INDEPENDENCE 19

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6FD00

Registrant of record

TERRAPLEX AG LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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-32 · N5499T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0032-7200033

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,450

Age

22

Investigator remarks

SELECTED WRONG FUEL TANK.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 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 2305. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2305.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.