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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUA03

1972-07-22 LONG BEACH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8158H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-161

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800131

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1F67

Registrant of record

LOPEZ-HALEY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8158H N. AMERICAN SNJ-5 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

N. AMERICAN SNJ-5 · N8158H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LONG BEACH MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

275° / 8 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000090918

Total time

5,286 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

790

Age

44

Investigator remarks

PLT SWITCHED TO EMPTY LFT TANK FOR TKOF.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL 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 2589. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2589.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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