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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70D0131

1969-08-19 SOMERTON, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N44936 NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 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

NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 · N44936

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

SOMERTON

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

14,000

Age

47

Investigator remarks

SWITCHED TO WRONG TANK. LANDED IN ALFALFA FLD.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3622. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3622.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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