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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73DLD85

1973-05-26 ZELLWOOD, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36TC Piper PA-36 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

PIPER PA-36 · N36TC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

K

Airport

POTTER

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000036E3

Total time

490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,050

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BY ELECT GAUGE TRANS.NEW ACFT FUEL NOT CKD VIS.

Investigator remarks

FUEL GAUGE FLOAT STICKING IN TUBE.ERRONEOUS READ

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/32 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/24 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD

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 1460. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1460.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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