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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVW16

1981-08-17 INDIAN SPRINGS, Nevada, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N99848 ERCO 415-D Minor

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

ERCO 415-D · N99848

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NELLIS AFB

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002471

Total time

1,600 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

133

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON DESERT TRRN.

Investigator remarks

UN TO PURCHASE AVN FUEL AT 3 ENROUTE ARPTS.LNDD

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/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1792. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1792.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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