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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTE51

1973-02-02 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N158V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TRAVEL AIR 4000

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E9C2

Registrant of record

GL LEONARD AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N158V AERO COMDR 520 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

AERO COMDR 520 · N158V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000520-100

Total time

3,756 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,168

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

FUEL GAGES INDCD 15 AND 17GALS RMNG.UN REACH RWY

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
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
88/K/48 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Joint factor
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 0245. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0245.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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