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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FTM06

1973-10-04 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N11511 Wittman W-8 Minor

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

WITTMAN W-8 · N11511

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SALT LAKE CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 6 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001919

Total time

349 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

593

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AVOIDING PWR LINES.

Investigator remarks

OVERFLEW SUITABLE ARPT,RAN OUT OF FUEL.LND HARD

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3171. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3171.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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