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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74FLA32

1974-02-13 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 U206 · N60436

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20602020

Total time

456 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,136

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E APRX 3HRS.NO FUEL FND IN TANKS,CARB,OR STRAINER.

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON ROAD.PLT RPTD 84GAL FUEL BFR DEP,AIRBORN

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0347. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.