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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72FPG07

1971-07-03 WALNUT RIDGE, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N934D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH G35

Year of manufacture

1956 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACF4D0

Registrant of record

ZELLERS CLYDE E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N934D Beech G35 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 G35 · N934D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WALNUT RIDGE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000D-46-70

Total time

3,417 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

104

Age

19

Investigator remarks

R MAIN TANK DRY,5 OTR TANKS CONTAINED FUEL.

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/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2525. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2525.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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