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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75FTE40

1975-01-08 PUEBLO, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3047P Piper PA-23 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-23 · N3047P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 45 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-992

Total time

3,368 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,810

Age

64

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 55K.UN MAINTAIN 1 ENG FLT.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/99 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL SELECTOR POSITIONED BETWEEN TANKS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
82/B/M B
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0569. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0569.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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