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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0458

1965-12-06 CLEO SPRINGS, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7834 AERO CMDR 520 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

AERO CMDR 520 · N7834

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

45° F

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SE OF FUEL CELLS AND INACCURATE FUEL GAUGE READING

Investigator remarks

FUEL TANK VENT LINES CLOGGED RESULTING IN COLLAP

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
74/C/CA C
POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/CJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PINCHED 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 3621. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3621.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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