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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEI24

1973-01-24 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5761V Beech A23-19 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 A23-19 · N5761V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000MB42

Total time

3,106 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

50

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SELECTOR PSN BTN L-R ON DETENTS.

Investigator remarks

ROLLED INTO BRUSHY THICKET OF SAPLING TREES.FUEL

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/99 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL SELECTOR POSITIONED BETWEEN TANKS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0391. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0391.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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