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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74FIA04

1973-09-02 HARRISONBURG, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8120D Piper PA-22 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-22 · N8120D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Airport

EARLY AIRSTRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

020° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-5611

Total time

1,682 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

355

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GE PLACARD-LVL FLT ONLY WITH LESS THAN 1/3 TANK.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SEL R TANK,FUEL GAUGE INDICATED EMPTY.R GAU

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2658. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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