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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FTE31

1979-04-18 FIRESTONE, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6495D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C-45H

Year of manufacture

1960 · 19 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19600930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A889B5

Registrant of record

PRESERVE AVIATION HISTORY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6495D Beech C45H 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

BEECH C45H · N6495D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FIRESTONE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000449

Total time

10,720 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

35

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause

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 1532. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1532.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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