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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FQD15

1970-05-23 ANTHONY, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8822R Bellanca 14-19 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

BELLANCA 14-19 · N8822R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SUNLAND AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004174

Total time

941 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,507

Age

53

Investigator remarks

L FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE INDICATED FULL WHEN EMPTY.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0782. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0782.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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