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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FNC46

1976-04-16 WARREN, Vermont, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5264G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 305A

Year of manufacture

1950 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740724

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6A223

Registrant of record

MORRIS THOMAS LEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5264G Cessna 305A 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

CESSNA 305A · N5264G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

J

Airport

WARREN SUGARBUSH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000021093

Total time

11,796 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,650

Age

43

Investigator remarks

NO FUEL L TANK,R ABT HALF.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 1425. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1425.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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