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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70A0001

1969-07-10 ATHENS, Georgia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6719T Cessna 310C Fatal

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

CESSNA 310C · N6719T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

ATHENS

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000039019

Total time

2,792 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,352

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED 100 YDS SHORT OF THRESHOLD.

Investigator remarks

BOTH FUEL SELECTORS FOUND IN OFF POSITION. CRASH

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 2453. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2453.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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