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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FLA18

1981-04-07 LAKE CITY, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5494V Cessna 210L 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

CESSNA 210L · N5494V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

I

Airport

LAKE CITY,FL

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021060963

Total time

1,721 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,413

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KS ON HI-WAY.FUEL TNKS DRY BFR GAUGES INDCD EMPTY.

Investigator remarks

MNVRD TO AVOID TREES & S-TURNED TO LND BHND TRUC

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
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
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 0731. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0731.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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