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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70D0059

1969-07-18 SEARCHLIGHT, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

SIAI-MARCHE S.205 · N973WA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

361 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,500

Age

34

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 2282. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2282.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.