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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70FRD15

1970-05-14 OPELOUSAS, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7691P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N7691P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

ST LANDRY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2409

Total time

1,591 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

85

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CHED,NOT POS LONG ENOUGH TO REESTABLISH FUEL FLOW.

Investigator remarks

FUEL MAIN TANKS MARKED AS AUX.FUEL SELECTOR SWIT

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 0954. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0954.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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