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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67A0088

1967-06-11 HAWI, Hawaii, United States Fatal 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 172H · N1486F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

UPOLU

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 5 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Total time

22 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COVERED.PLT,PX TOOK OFF SEAT BELTS PRIOR TO IMPACT

Investigator remarks

DITCHED IN PACIFIC OFFSHORE UPOLU PT.ACFT NOT RE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 64/C/31 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 88/K/88 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
  • 88/K/12 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED 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 2 0539. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0539.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.