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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRG28

1970-09-19 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5850B Cessna 182A 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

CESSNA 182A · N5850B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

LOWMAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033850

Total time

2,638 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

304

Age

28

Investigator remarks

FUEL SELECTOR ON EMPTY L TANK. 12.5GALS R TANK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/K B
TERRAIN SANDY

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 3789. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3789.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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