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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FPG41

1973-03-15 CONWAY, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N881E Beech 65-88 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 65-88 · N881E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

CONWAY MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000LP-5

Total time

1,610 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,350

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GN POLE.BOTH MAIN TANKS EMPTY-OUTBOARDS APRX 55GAL

Investigator remarks

PILOT MADE FORCED LNDG ON HIGHWAY-WING STRUCK SI

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0466. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0466.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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