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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX68F0264

1967-12-23 CALIPATRIA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7390B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH E35

Year of manufacture

1954 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560625

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9EED4

Registrant of record

WITTHUHN JOHNIE B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7390B Beech E35 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 E35 · N7390B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BOMBAY BEACH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

916 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

108

Age

38

Investigator remarks

FUEL SELECTOR ON EMPTY TANK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 4390. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4390.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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