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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN69D0133

1968-10-17 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N99905 ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N99905

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 20 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

626 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

627

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG.WAS EMPTY.FUEL AVBL WNG TANK NOT USED.

Investigator remarks

FUSLG TNK FILLS FROM WING TNK.FUSLG TANK FEEDS E

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 3734. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3734.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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