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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTM18

1973-02-05 BOUNTIFUL, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6594P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1960 · 13 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8B11B

Registrant of record

BOYD LARRY C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6594P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N6594P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

SALT LAKE SKYPK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1716

Total time

2,067 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,090

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T DIDNT SWITCH TANKS.

Investigator remarks

R TANK CAPACITY REDUCED DUE POOR INSTALLATION.PL

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
74/L/CA L
POWERPLANT TANKS
88/L/CB L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED
68/L/D6 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION

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 0261. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0261.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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