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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FTE08

1973-07-23 MACK, Colorado, United States Serious 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N15JH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 500

Year of manufacture

1974

Engine

P&W CANADA JT15D-1

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19740718

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0C8A6

Registrant of record

CENTRAL VIRGINIA AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

MINIPLANE DSAI · N15JH

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

MACK MESA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000JEHI

Total time

5 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

618

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N ROAD.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SYS DID NOT HAVE A VENT LINE.TRIED TO LND O

Cause factors

68/C/J6 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 3182. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3182.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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