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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FLQ40

1972-06-04 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6947S Cessna 150H Serious

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

CESSNA 150H · N6947S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 3 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015067647

Total time

3,180 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

119

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

K AT 3/4 FULL.

Investigator remarks

RAN OUT OF FUEL,LND IN CORN FLD. R FUEL IND STUC

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL 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
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 0467. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0467.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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