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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68F0028

1967-06-25 FAIRFIELD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1139H Aeronca 15AC 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

AERONCA 15AC · N1139H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 16 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F CELLS.PLT PLANNED FOR 36GALS.HAD 29GALS ON BOARD

Investigator remarks

PARTIAL DISTORTION REDUCED TOTAL FUEL CAPACITY O

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
74/C/CA C
POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
88/C/BJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COLLAPSED Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2043. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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