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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEP09

1971-08-14 LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6837N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680425

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A911B6

Registrant of record

BLOOM ALEXSANDR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6837N Mooney M20C 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

MOONEY M20C · N6837N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LA CROSSE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680126

Total time

1,629 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BT 25LBS,EMPTY.

Investigator remarks

L TANK GAUGE INDCD ABT 5LBS,EMPTY.R TANK INDCD A

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
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 1452. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1452.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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